Really? Ubuntu is pretty much rock solid, and if it does crash it doesn't just say I broke it, fuck you like windows.
Windows makes me restart just to update .Net for Christ's sake.
Windows makes me restart just to update .Net for Christ's sake.
Somehow you've got decision about Linux from Ubuntu. There are not as much changes on rolling release though I had once similar problem on Arch Linux in a decade. I've heard it is impossible on Nix (easy rollback).
There are 443 Canonical employees [2] and 13400 Red Hat employees [3]. I've heard "Red Hat" a lot in presentations of core stack - X, Cairo, Pango. Linux kernel contribution by company — Red Hat 8%, no Canonical [4]. Ubuntu made upstart, mir, unity, now snap. Red Hat made systemd and flatpak.
Ubuntu experiments with users more than Arch Linux does. It is among the first on pulseaudio, systemd, wayland. Some reverted, some lived through. It is not stable. So why is Ubuntu user friendly?
[1] https://canonical.com/careers/marketing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
[4] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-deve...
It used to work out of the box and look great at that.
Ubuntu actually made Gnome 2 look and work so well that for a few years that was my favorite.
Red Hat always was a hassle to install for end users and their default Gnome was dated and at times poorly configured.
It is 2020 — live USB, graphical installer, video review on https://manjaro.org/download/