Why Do People Hate Ubuntu? 35% People Do (4,929 opinions)

Canonical cares little about the existing user
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I hate that Ubuntu seems way more interested in getting new users than helping existing ones. They know that 90% of their users prefer having their buttons on the right ... read all

by The Thunder Chimp on 04 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
- because when Mark tells about Ubuntu, he never
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- because when Mark tells about Ubuntu, he never mentions that it's Linux - because it's very slow, even if the compared system runs on the same kernel and uses ... read all

by Michael222 on 17 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
I won't be upgrading to ubuntu 14.04
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Stupid canonical decided to "reach more windows users" by trying to be exactly like microcrap. They are way too confident in this, and in 14.04, they will rewrite all the ... read all

by phillips1012 on 09 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
If using your computer was like having a dinner,
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If using your computer was like having a dinner, then Windows cooks the food for you, arranges all items, lays the table, does the washing up and puts every cutlery ... read all

by bizso09 on 05 Mar - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
how can anyone use this OS voluntarily????????
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In ubuntu works nothing, except my pc. I use ubuntu only because I've destroyed my pc a little and under windows it will not boot. if you know windows, you ... read all

by Basti H on 13 Feb - 2 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's commercialized so much that it's forcing
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It's commercialized so much that it's forcing their GNU/Linux distro into the next Microsoft Windows, not to mention that it's extremely unstable. Just use Debian, FTW! read all

by Josh A on 21 Jan - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Nothing ever fucking works. I used Ubuntu for 4
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Nothing ever fucking works. I used Ubuntu for 4 years and I spent more time trying to make the damn thing work than I spent getting my work done. I ... read all

by fhsk3j4jfhd on 11 Jan - 2 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
it forced that crappy unity desktop on me
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I hate the new unity desktop and resent beeing co-opted into it. Have been using Ubuntu/gnome happily for 7 years but the latest release has me hopping mad. Mad enough ... read all

by Stewart H on 15 Dec - 2 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It wont boot up after installing and any attempt
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It wont boot up after installing and any attempt to fix it is met with more problems. read all

by Paul M on 01 Nov - 2 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
How is it that they could make such an unusable OS
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Half the time my computer won't wake up from sleep mode. When it does, I usually can't play videos - either the playback is slow and choppy or it's too ... read all

by A P on 27 Oct - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Waiting for the network connection -edition
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I just love how I have to wait 60 seconds for network connection every now and then during boot (can't even switch to console). I love how the system eventually ... read all

by Partsy on 05 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
People (from Ubuntu team) are getting more stupid
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Trying to get read of the splash screen: /boot/grub/menu.lst edit? Noooooooo /boot/grub/grub.cfg edit? Nooooooo WTF??? read all

by Chris05 on 04 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Proprietary
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# Booted into 800MB+ of memory # had to add myself to the video usergroup so I could hardware accelerate anything out of ~/ # Xorg segfaulted when I replaced ... read all

by Zeptis on 03 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
its like impossible to instal anything and then
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its like impossible to instal anything and then you have to have supporting apps to do so and on top of that the people who made blogs and videos did ... read all

by Arthur Z on 17 Aug - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
EVEN MacOS IS BETTER
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BIGGEST PILE OF SHIT ON THE PLANET!!!! FUCKING LINUX TROLLS GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!! read all

by ufodogz on 13 Jul - 3 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
No Test and release discipline
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The bunch of nerds running the show practically despises the users. Their hight and mighty lot dont properly test their code except at the kernel level. The distros are supposed ... read all

by Antony J on 13 Jul - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Bad and Complex
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To add to all the reasons that have been written, its configuration is very complex, much more than Slackware. Who said it's a distro for Newbies ??? read all

by Oncle J on 02 Jul - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Why do you hate Ubuntu?
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Why do you hate Ubuntu? read all

by Aurélien L on 01 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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It's just lame and a shame in the UNIX family.
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As many Linux Distributions, it's just about hype and pretending been the "best operating system ever" although it's just a lame UNIX. The releases are just beta shit and even ... read all

by Aurélien L on 01 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
This used do be a kinda good distro, but since
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This used do be a kinda good distro, but since 10 it started going backwards, getting more and more restrictions on the way. read all

by Gilad N on 31 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag