It's a lot easier to install a program than it is to switch operating systems and ecosystems

he expects WSL to overtake native Ubuntu installations within months

Yeah, because no one is installing Ubuntu anymore.

Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?

How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?

Sorry, but I believe the blog post author's statements regarding "statistics" are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.

The "AI" part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too.
The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:

AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.

Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew...

As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.

# Fun Is Social

My first real experience of OSS was with a successful, established project whose culture I could observe. It was KDE, the community behind a desktop environment for Linux...

Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships...

Source

I dont mean to kick anybody, but Ubuntu is the worst of all the big name distros imo. What is its purpose? It got its lunch ate by everything and even back in the dsy slapping Debian on anything I had running Ubuntu immediately made it better.

I will never understand why it's called the Windows subsystem for Linux instead of the other way around? Doesn't Linux system for Windows make so much more sense?

A lot of work places need to keep their workstations on Windows for mdm and security compliance etc, or the IT staff does not have the bandwidth to add another OS for their developers and keep it compliant. Installing an app to run a Linux environment in userspace is easier than getting everything supported on bare metal workstations.

They say it like it's a good thing.

Originally Ubuntu was marketing itself on freedom, and the open source culture that had made the Linux desktop possible.

Growing on Windows 11 is not helping promote freedom from proprietary software, so I don't see that as a positive.
Ubuntu has lost perspective, and abandoned the ideals and purpose of Open Source IMO.

It doesn't surprise me. After all it's the default way to start using WSL.

But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu's popularity is slowly sinking.

wsl --install installs Ubuntu by default. If I had to use WSL, I'd try this first too.

There's no way this will possibly bite them on the ass.

I assume it's because people realized what Canonical is turning into and have stopped installing it. While at work you may still need some Linux tools on a Windows machine.

When getting into linux it was easy to remove ubuntu from the list due to them being like this.

Fedora considering ai earlier this year, and now debian talking about maybe slopping it too, is starting to creep me out even more about the future.

@SocialistVibes01 Do these numbers include "WSL" installs?linuxvox.com/blog/windows-linu

I actually believe that. Seems like most Linux users are pretty anti Canonical and it's also the default distro for WSL2. I still like it for server use for enterprise support and whatnot, but I also don't really love the desktop experience they are currently shipping and don't use it on any gui machines currently. I'm not in love with snaps, if they opened up the store early on I might have been a believer but at this point it just feels like a land grab.

Sounds like a loop hole to run WSL and let compliance only check the host OS and not the WSL OS

Ubuntu is preparing for the AI PC

I sure hope they fork it. Not that anyone should be using Ubuntu in the first place but they sure do anyway.