Is Ubuntu brilliant?

If you have to learn a lesson from high school, it is like this: "popular" is the changing mistress. In short, "pop" is equivalent to impermanence-as Ubuntu has proven in the last few weeks. The sudden disruption to the Unity desktop attracted the attention of the Linux community as soon as it was launched, and some people thought that Canonical was not lost. Since the official launch of tunatty, this fear has spread, and some data released last week has made these worries explicit.

If you have to learn a lesson from high school, it is like this: "popular" is the changing mistress. In short, "pop" is equivalent to impermanence-as Ubuntu has proven in the last few weeks.

Sudden disruption

The launch of Unity desktop attracted a lot of attention from the Linux community, and even led some people to think that Canonical was lost.

Ever since the official launch of Ubuntu Natty, this fear has spread, and some data released last week makes these worries reasonable. In other words, in the "most popular release" ranking of DistroWatch (which lists the popular Linux distributions so far), Ubuntu has all the way down from its long-term position No. 1 to 3rd.

Does Ubuntu know where to go?

Ubuntu is going downhill, And the TuxRadar editors commented this way last week. Data of each group has recently been published. women can clearly see that the gap between Ubuntu and other Linux distributions is narrowing down. In the past month, Mint and Fedora began to catch up with Ubuntu.

This is why the message is explosive. As a matter of fact, TuxRadar soon pointed out: Maybe the biggest one we have ever held is: is there any future for Ubuntu? Is it true that Unity is used to enable Wayland, and many other sudden changes in the desktop environment have alienated traditional Linux users from Ubuntu?

After that, we soon heard a burst of exclamation in the Linux circle-glasses that fell along with Punchy Penguins. In an instant, the "quarrel metric" on Linux Girl began to scream, so she left her other things, of course, glasses, and took out her own stenographer pen to start recording.

Being mediocre?

It is worth noting that many people on TuxRadar have to talk about this topic. "I think" Ubuntu is fading into a niche version "". In the comment area on the Tuxradar site, the user dazfuller writes, "Those Super Users are migrating to other releases, such as Fedora and Arch.

"On the contrary, I think the real problem is: Can Ubuntu no longer attract new users ?" SpaceJase responded in this way: "New Linux users will ask which release version of Linux to install. When they see negative comments on the Unity interface, it is even less likely that you are willing to change the habit of using Windows (and therefore do not want to choose Ubuntu or even Linux ).

"Maybe Ubuntu is becoming mediocre ?" Eric mesa thinks so.

It would be better if it was more stable.

In the Punchy Penguin salon, we can see many of these ideas.

When the update destroys the software package and Compiz destroys Unity, my patience is gradually exhausted. "There are other problems," Martin Espinoza, A Hyperlogos blogger.

Tell Linux Girl, "I think the Unity interface is not the main cause, and" the product is launched in a rush if it is not mature "is the crux of the problem ."

The Unity interface can be "an improvement". In fact, "it's better to make it more stable," Espinoza said. "Sometimes it gets angry, this is because an application uninstalls the display card driver in sequence. It seems impossible for an application! Sometimes the Unity interface crashes. I have to open the terminal and restart Unity ."

"Also, the update of Firefox also started black screen, and I had to run to use Firefox 6. However, unlike I upgraded to Firefox4, Firefox 6 uses many software packages with the same name as Firefox 4 and cannot coexist with Firefox 4 !" Espinoza continues to add, "If Ubuntu continues this way against User Enumeration, I will be very determined to invest in other releases, just as I was determined to invest in ubuntu ."

Ubuntu is annoying the current user.

Indeed, "it is valuable to make things simple, but to some extent, most PC users are satisfied with the complexity of the current KDE/GNOME/XFCE4 desktop"

, Blog author Robert Pogson pointed out that "I have not seen any urgent changes"

Of course, Canonical can say, "This provides another option for users who like the new UI," Pogson said. "Diversified choices are good, but Canonical/Ubuntu is a huge step forward in the" exciting changes that people can bear. I think Ubuntu is disturbing most existing users and ignoring the feelings of new users ."

For Pogson, the most unpleasant thing about him is "contempt for X Window". He told linux Girls that "this is not a good path in the pop-up world of PCs ", "network-based UI is the future development direction. Ubuntu should actively embrace and promote it." He concluded, "X is a powerful feature for system administrators and transparent to common users. X is also the main reason for commercial users to embrace free GNU/Linux. It is equivalent to the complexity and cost hierarchy of Remote Desktop protocols on other operating systems. "

Incomplete drivers are not friendly.

Although I am a fan of Windows, the Slashdot blogger HairyFeet shares the same view: "Ubuntu is declining, isn't it ?" HairyFeet said, "Will you use a Linux system that you think is" designed for all mankind "-It is too avant-garde, so that its own faults are beyond your tolerable range."

The launch of such a cutting-edge "friendly" Operating System-such "friendly" should be described in words we have never heard. HairyFeet concluded that "the driver is not well-developed. It is not user-friendly to release the next semi-finished version in a rush before the bug of a version is fixed as far as possible ."

We are already familiar with this situation.

"The current response to new Canonical's products is always: What is expected (How much share or has a profound impact, but not so)", said Barbara Hudson, Slashdot blogger.

Ubuntu defenders are trying to make arguments about how Canonical is heading for new areas (for example, tablets and devices with the same resolution level), but we have heard this argument too many times ." Hudson continued, "Red Hat companies do not rely on annual overdraft of their target consumer groups to pursue new opportunities and make profits (Canonica is still not profitable )."

"There is no lesson in this regard," he said. "You want your users to be loyal only to them, ubuntu Desktop Users are not happy to be regarded as a group of "demands are always ignored."

Every newcomer will make Linux better.

In the smartphone and tablet markets, it is hard to say how Canonical competes with Android, which has already taken a huge lead. More importantly, how does Ubuntu keep its position in people's minds.

Hudoson believes: "Unity has been late for five years. If they insist on solving deteriorating quality problems early in the morning, the situation of Canionical (or even the entire Linux field) will be better ."

The consultant is also the positive side of Slashdot's Gerhard Mack choice. "The good thing about open-source is that the competition between different releases is cruel, and creativity always stands out in the competition. Once people think that you can make better things, they will be willing to try. In short, every new leader will make Linux better. "