 So today I'm gonna talk about something that I don't know that everybody will agree with But I think that it's something that needs to be said and that is that Ubuntu is looking old and crusty They have had the base same basic layout for 20 years They've had the same basic color scheme for 20 years now. They have modernized the icon set and they have changed the General GTK theme so it doesn't look the same as it did 20 years ago. So obviously the Some of the bits and pieces have become more modern looking and better looking so they have done some work But it's if you if you look at this it's not anything that has is significantly different than it was in 2008 and Now I know some of you guys out there who are big Ubuntu fans are perfectly okay with the way this looks and if you're not okay with us look you can always good install go down tweaks or whatever and Change it to however you want to look and you can install extensions and you can move things around if you wanted to make it different You could make it different but my point is is that Ubuntu has looked the same way for a very long time and That just makes it feel like it's not moving forward and it feels like one of those distributions that is developed to cater to their fans and no one else and You know, there's nothing wrong with those distributions that are very attached to the way they look and feel You know a lot of distributions are exactly like that, but they're they all Have a fan base and they have no interest in expanding outside of it And that's not what Ubuntu is supposed to be Ubuntu is supposed to be the distribution that you point new users towards Where new and exciting things are supposed to happen and that's just not really the way Ubuntu has felt to me in a very long time It has felt old crusty and stale and sometimes pretty slow so it has some issues and I think that if they spent just a little bit of time in in Modernizing it and making it so that it doesn't look and feel the exact same way it has since 2008 I think that they could Bring in it's not only new Linux users better, but they could also Bring in some of the people that they've lost over the years, you know some new and exciting things do draw in Bigger audiences. It's just kind of the way things work but also Ubuntu has a reputation now of being just about stability and Not about Innovation right when Ubuntu first came out it was all about innovation, you know It's one of the distributions that made Linux usable for the first time if you wanted to install Linux on a machine Ubuntu was pretty much the best option because it had the best hardware support It was constantly getting updated, you know it though the pace of innovation was very very quick lickety-split Nowadays it's not that it's not that anymore now obviously I don't want I really don't want to go back to the old days where you know Audio didn't work half the time you couldn't get your Wi-Fi card working for the life of you You know, I don't want to go back to the bad old days But Ubuntu had a reputation at one point of pushing the envelope and it no longer does it now It feels like it stays the same like every release that it comes out with every six months or so It's just the same stuff over and over and over again even their new installer Basically looks like the old installer, you know, it's there's nothing here that is new and exciting and That's disappointing to me because I think that Ubuntu When it was pushing the envelope was something that was to be so celebrated. It was to be Rewarded it's why they have so many users That have been with them for so long is because they had you know, they were the pioneers of Linux, right? You know Linux was around a long time before Ubuntu showed up, but it did not become popular You know quote-unquote popular until Ubuntu was here And one of the reasons why that was the case was because Ubuntu came in and made Linux accessible They weren't afraid of doing new things. They weren't afraid of trying new things they weren't afraid of pushing that envelope and That spirit of innovation has or at least appears to have gone away Now some of this is simply because canonical has lost interest in the desktop, you know They just they're no longer interested in coming to this, you know piece of software and innovating They're all about the enterprise market now, right? They're an enterprise company. That's where they make their money The Ubuntu desktop makes them zero dollars, right? You know, and that's just the way it has been forever, right? they've never made a profit on the Ubuntu desktop and Because that they're a company and they're supposed to make money They have to focus where they're going to make money. So that's part of it But also, you know, it's when you create something that is that works and a lot of people like Changing it is scary, right coming out and saying hey We're gonna blow this thing up and make it new and exciting again is going to Cause some people to sit to worry that their beloved Ubuntu is going away We we know that this is the case because you know when Genome 2 Was around and then Genome came out with Genome 3. Everybody hated it, right? You know, that's the reason why we have Ubuntu mate It's the reason why we have the cinnamon desktop, right? people are very attached to the their workflows and the way things work and For whatever reason people like this particular Workflow and this particular look and feel and changing that would be not so great for canonical. Maybe, you know I'm different than a lot of people. I like change I like to have developers behind a distribution that are interested in Making changes and trying new things, you know, it makes it more exciting for me But I'm very rare in that in that way of thinking I think that a lot of people just prefer what they know and that's just you know Kind of what Ubuntu has kind of fallen into that this is what they know and there they find no reason to change it now Some of this is just that I've never been a Ubuntu fan, right? I've never been You know and an averaging kind of guy if if you know what I mean Like I gotta this this color purple has never been my kind of color and I think that you know a fresh color scheme Would be happy now obviously a color scheme so easy to change But it just feels like it's everywhere in the you know the Ubuntu ecosystem And I it's just something that I I personally don't like so I always think that you know if they change this Ubuntu would be better for me So this is mostly just a selfish wish But it does feel like Ubuntu has kind of stagnated now over the course of the last few releases Maybe the last three or four years maybe even longer than that It just feels like every release gets progressively more Meh, you know We only really cover it if there's things that go wrong like if there's a big bug or they they ship something that you know Breaks like app images or something like that then we then we'll cover it right? Well, we'll talk about it But when was the last time we come out with a release for Ubuntu and pointed towards hey, they have a brand new feature It's awesome. Would you talk about it? It's been a very long time and you know That's a little bit disappointing because Ubuntu like I said used to be the develop the the distro that pushed Linux 4 It's not that anymore. That's kind of fedora, you know And I don't want to sound like a fedora fanboy But fedora and the developers behind fedora push new technologies all the time, you know They push whaling they push pipe wire, you know when the next brand new thing come out comes out I'm sure fedora will be one of the first distributions that you know adopt it right and Ubuntu I think they've kind of gotten burned on doing new things because you know they they tried mirror and they tried to do the mobile thing Right and none of those things took off and now they're very gun shy, right? They don't want to Try new things because They've failed too many times maybe, you know, and that's just you know a shame So ubuntu I feel is being left behind a little bit in the terms of actually being Thought of as an innovative distribution now. It's just The new Debian Sorry to say that is it's the new Debian Maybe I'll use that as a title So that is it for this video if you have thoughts on the whole idea of ubuntu becoming old and crusty Let me know in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you You can follow me on masses on our odyssey those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the linux cast links for libera pay And youtube will be in the video description as well Thanks everybody who does support me on patreon youtube you guys are all Absolutely amazing without you the channels will not be anywhere near where it is right now So thank you very very much for your support. I truly do appreciate it. 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