They've about a half dozen stupid decisions just in the past decade that has garnered the tarnish on their reputation. Trying to rationalize it won't make the issues go away.

Note that this same hate sure isn't going towards Debian.

It seems that canonical does not change their view about their decisions, why should anyone else change their view about canonical?

Yeah this is BS. They had one the best Linux contributers in their corner developing his LXC for Canonical but even he eventually was tired if their shenanigans and re-invented LXD in the new and improved incus.

I've tried Ubuntu a couple times in the past 5 years and it's the sone of same type of frustrations I had with Windows.

By far my number one reason for hating Ubuntu is that a lot of lazy software publishers think that only supporting Ubuntu is good enough to reach Linux users, even though (as this article points out) they're one of the more contrarian and overall difficult to work with distros in the ecosystem.

Its less of a problem today thanks to containers. Even when a dev doesn't publish a flatpak, you can usually run it in a podman/docker container, or in a toolbox/distrobox.

Still, it pisses me off when I see that happening (even though it's technically not Canonical's fault)

Do people still spend a lot of time complaining about all the dumb things Ubuntu did? I haven't heard much about it for a few years, really.

Having security updates locked behind a paywall is wild.