Sunday morning coffee and Ubuntu talk
Sunday morning coffee at my local cafe as usual and writing down a few thoughts before they escape into the either never to be recovered. It’s a crisp Spring morning, the Sun was out shining through water logged clouds creating a majestic sky and a feeling of freshness to the day. This did not last though as the heavens opened up and released the rains. Just a typical Spring morning here, lucky I had already reached the cafe.
The out of the box Ubuntu experience I love.
I’ve used many Linux distributions over the years and they all have their quirks and unique ways of achieving this. This is Linux of course and it is something I have come to expect. Even now I still like to try out different distributions occasionally and seeing how they compare with the out of the box experience that Ubuntu gives me and has done so for many years. I am an experienced Linux user so generally I can make any distribution work for me with a little bit of tinkering. But, as of yet I have never really found a distribution that well, works out of the box such as Ubuntu, it really is the perfect workstation OS.
It just works!
“It just works!” This was the moto in the Ubuntu community some years ago, maybe not official moto but it was a goal to work to, a Linux distribution that gets out of your way and just works and from my experience Ubuntu does just that! My laptop I am writing this on post on is running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it is a Thinkpad T14s 13th gen, it’s my workstation my workhorse, it needs to boot up everyday and just work, That is the Ubuntu experience I’m talking about. I have run other distributions on this laptop, swapping out the ssd here and there, but nothing gives me that guarantee like Ubuntu, closest would be Debian, but it is Debian so this would be expected.
Debian gives me the stability but doesn’t give me the user experience, it is still some assembly required and that goes for most Linux distributions out there, even those that cater for new users. The grater Linux community will disagree with me here I know, the Linux community is disagreeable at the best of times. Form my experience as someone who has migrated many people over to a Linux based OS, is the majority of the population are not Linux users they are computer users and very basic computer uses “press button - computer go”
Linux users are a different bread I find.
I will always enjoy using other distributions that will never change, but as long as it exists, Ubuntu will always be installed somewhere.
R.