Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

eu

just upgraded an old notebook from 16.04 to 18.04 :) i’m surprised they kept the files up for such a long time.

antonyh

I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice. They hold back security updates unless you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro with the 'esm-apps'. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't apply a ransom to security updates.

erelong

Used to love Ubuntu but they dropped X11 support so I'm out (I'm fine with Wayland for those who want it but it still breaks things I've used)

OroPla

I left ubuntu back during the unity desktop days. It was a great desktop for beginners, but not my cup of tea. Since then they put ads in their operating system and embraced these nonsensical snap packages, so I'll never go back to ubuntu. Instead, I'll probably move everything over to Void next.

ilaksh

I still remember when I found out about Ubuntu 100 years ago. It's clear to me that Ubuntu is no longer in fashion. So what is popular these days? From what I heard, I think it's Fedora or Arch (such as Omarchy), but only with some slick UI stuff like Hyprland and Caelestia.

aframemodular

Reminds me of the "Stonky Kong" meme

josteink

Ubuntu started doing too much weird or non-standard stuff, so I moved all my servers to Debian. Previous releases was MIR, Upstart, Snapd… This release it’s no X11 and GNU Coreutils replaced by buggy Rust rewrites. Debian feels more like pure FOSS and in general just better. None of that icky flavour in the back of your mouth.

throw0101c

Seems that this release still allows for coreutils (rm, cp, etc ) to come from the GNU folks in addition to the Rust-based uutils: * https://packages.ubuntu.com/stonking/coreutils See "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils" from last month: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696697

amelius

I only want to know one thing: did they finally fix the main usability problems with Snap? Or at least acknowledged them?

flakiness

Despite of the shortcomings, I'm still sticking to Ubuntu. It's boring, and occasionally break things. But at least it's not hostile. If you use the words like "still" and "at least", there is little enthusiasm. But that's how a long-term relationship looks like I guess.