I believe the community had expressed a lot of valuable ideas here, so I will keep the post. But I am locking the thread because it's just not information given in good faith. That's not to say that the points are all wrong, these can be debated. And we did debate. But the infographic itself is border to being just propaganda against a distro that serves well to a lot of users (this is a fact! even if me or you think those users could be served better.)

automatically attaching snaps to apt is pretty much the one reason why I'll never use Ubuntu. and now I find out here that they put damn ads in the terminal for "Ubuntu Pro"? oh get fucked Canonical.

Friends don't let Friends install Ubuntu.

If anyone else would rather read text as text: https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/

Strong agree. I use a derivative that blocks snaps instead of direct Kubuntu now, and it wasn't Just because of the snaps.

the malware one happens in most repos at some point, but the rest is why i dont use ubuntu.

The best part of Ubuntu was improving Debian. In the beginning, Debian was a bit ugly and difficult. Ubuntu was competition, and perhaps resources (IDK) directly or indirectly. Debian is much easier to use than it was when Ubuntu was new.

Ubuntu is taking the RedHat approach (over complicating so that one must buy the support).

The article: https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/

arch

bow and arrow

is this from another dimension?

Is .gif different there?

I find it rather interesting that the same author wrote a new article about how to install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS the day after writing about Ubuntu's trust problem, but without mentioning the previous article or any point he previously made...

Ironically, just read an article recently about this exact issue.

https://itsfoss.com/opinion/why-hate-ubuntu/

Lmao, they put ads in the terminal? Are they pandering to Win11 users?? :)

is it just me or does especially the text read AI-generated?

why is this infographic AI generated and where are the pixels

Snap is the cancer of Linux. Go work for Micro$lop if you like to disrespect users.

Original at https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/

I wondered why they didn't mention that the Universe repository comes without any form of official support and that unpaid community members are expected to cherry pick bug fixes and backport them, usually resulting in no updates, a potential security risk.

Then I scrolled down and they're suggesting Ubuntu derivatives that are also affected by this (Mint pop). I have the suspicion that they don't mention to make these two look good.

See https://www.flu0r1ne.net/logs/ubuntu_withholding_universe_security_patches for a somewhat recent (2023) overview on that topic and how Ubuntu Pro plays into this.

ads in the terminal lol. back in 2009 I was a gentoo user and was distro shopping. looked at fedora Debian Ubuntu and arch and settled on Debian.

I don't remember if ubunto had either snap or unity back then... but I saw Ubunto as mainly making Debian easier to use. I was coming from Gentoo... debian was already easy to use 🙂

now, I use arch btw. switched in 2019 (mainly cause I got new hardware and needed latest releases and latest bugs 🙂)

Too many pixels

. . . and it all boils down to "Canonical being into rent-seeking and having weird NIH issues that make it push low-quality own software (snaps in the current iteration, but there have been others) over better solutions used by other distros."

Why is fedora a tank top?

Oh how I hated it when I experienced the snap shenanigan firsthand.

With a title like that you know it's going to be 100% FUD. Not that Canonical doesn't deserve some of it.