The Rise and Fall of Ubuntu: What Happened?

The Rise and Fall of Ubuntu: What Happened? | Tech History

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The date is October 20, 2004. On this day, the first ever version of Ubuntu Linux was released. Whatever you think of Ubuntu nowadays, the immense impact that it has had on the Linux and open source community over the years is undeniable, and I think it’s important to take a look back at the history of Ubuntu. From an easier-to-install Debian, to one of the most influential- and controversial- Linux distributions of all time, this is the Ubuntu story.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:43 Chapter 1: Origins
2:58 Chapter 2: The GNOME 2 Era
6:00 Chapter 3: The First Taste of Controversy
8:01 Chapter 4: The Unity Era
10:39 Chapter 5: A Sudden Change
11:50 Chapter 6: The Unity Era
14:08 Chapter 7: Where does that leave us now?
15:14 Outro & THANKS!!
16:07 Credits
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@moosesnWoop Ай бұрын

I'm sad you glossed over WHY it's called Ubuntu. Ubuntu is SUCH a great name for open source. It's a South African term which loosely translates to "I am because we are" and it's a catch all term to express human community. It's so fitting and sort of fate in a way, that the most used Linux distro is "Ubuntu" and open source, free to community "i exist because you exist" ideology.

@DarrellBraunsLongThumbNail Жыл бұрын

Ubuntu 11.04 is where my linux journey began. I'm one that loved Unity right away. It was so handy when you got a handle on it. Scopes was great too. It made it easy to find everything. I even used a Nexus 4 with Ubuntu Touch for a couple years. I still have Ubuntu on my desktop, and dual boot Linux Mint and Kali on my laptop. I still learn new things linux can do every day! Good video, man

@MarkyShaw Жыл бұрын

Dude, I really enjoyed that video. Learned lots of history that eluded me for years when I took a break with Ubuntu. Was pleased with their latest release after bit of Gnome tweaking. Thank you for sharing!

@DistrosProjects Жыл бұрын

Glad you learned something!

@WeirdTreeThing Жыл бұрын

My first experience with linux was ubuntu 16.04. I loved the way unity worked and looked back then. I wasn't very happy when they switched to gnome with ubuntu 18.04 but continued to use it because it was what I was used to and didn't want to change. Then 20.04 rolled out and completely changed the way the ubuntu desktop looked like. I didn't like the way it looked and how slow it ran on my old pc. Then I discovered ubuntu unity and installed it right away. I was happy to have unity back while having an up to date version of ubuntu. But eventually I wanted to move on to something else and switched to arch with xfce. After that I tried out a lot of different distros and DEs/WMs and ended up with arch and Hyprland as of writing this. Ubuntu 16.04 and the unity desktop will always have a special place in my heart as where my linux journey started.

@stephenhosking7384 2 ай бұрын

Yes, we remember the first time we installed Linux and got something special, which was so different from Windows! For me, it was RedHat 5.2, way back in 1998! We also remember a few of the other "ah.. ah..!" moments along the way. For me, the KDE desktop. I never liked gnome, which right from the start struck me as zealotry. :)

@RyanKarolak Ай бұрын

I remember trying out Ubuntu in 2004. I still use Ubuntu as my primary Linux distro. Not because it's the 'best' out there, but I'm very comfortable with Ubuntu and Debian. Ubuntu certainly has had its ups and downs. The auto-sending of search terms to Amazon wasn't good. I didn't like Snaps at first, but I've warmed up a lot to them over time as they got better integrated into the desktop.

@TrueFangs Жыл бұрын

How dare you, not have more subscribers. Your content is amazing!

@marinoceccotti9155 Жыл бұрын

I used Ubuntu since the Hardy Heron. I gave up when they got rid of Gnome 2 for Unity. I also remember my utter dismay seeing an Amazon logo in the menu. I then switched to Mint Mate.

@channel-zz8kk 6 ай бұрын

Truly a great documentary! I was surprised when you said that you didn't know much about Linux before 2018; you researched this so thoroughly that I thought you were a user since the 2000s. I'm cautiously optimistic for the future of Ubuntu, there's still so much potential.

@shu35627 Жыл бұрын

despite getting so much hate by community here i am..... using ubuntu still with unity desktop... what can i say now.. i can't seems to use DE other than UNITY.. so even if i try other distros none seems to fit my need and usability .. unity is just that perfect for me.. 🙃🙃 been using ubuntu since 6 years now .. in these years i tried different distros and desktop environments but again switched to ubuntu for unity..

@ismatovsanjarbek 2 ай бұрын

Ubuntu is still taking the biggest share in Linux world. Actually, Ubuntu is the face of Linux for new users. Some people just got bored and tried to find something else.

@Sheik41 21 күн бұрын

Linux mint also great

@Sugar95 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant video, love these small documentaries. Still love and use the Unity desktop every day, they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands haha.

@robonator2945 Жыл бұрын

genuinely super well made and useful for people getting into linux. I knew most of this already, but even then there were some really interesting bits I didn't know about like Canonical trying to make their own display server from the ground up.

@kesierzg Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I actually was looking for a video like this some time ago!

@fullscale4me Жыл бұрын

I learned a lot about a distro I used and then left through many of those years. Well done!

@beautifulislam67 Жыл бұрын

I am using Ubuntu 22.04, it is great. 🙂

@felcynchannel840 11 ай бұрын

I wanted a history of Ubuntu in a well presented and organized manner! I got just that and learned a lot. I’ve gotten into Ubuntu a lot more as of late. My grandpas PC from 2012-2013 ish was quite sluggish on windows 10. Put in a SSD and asked if he would be willing to try Ubuntu and man he’s loving it. For him it’s simple enough for what he’s doing mail and web searches. He didn’t like thunderbird which I don’t blame him! Lol

@CozumelTy 2 ай бұрын

Great work on this video.

@alixcozmo 2 ай бұрын

Great video! Really interesting

@lmachado788 Жыл бұрын

Great video!!

@Kyle-Jade Күн бұрын

Making a "rise and fall" video about Ubuntu with only a few years of use? That's a bold claim. As someone who's been using Ubuntu for two decades, I can confidently say it's thriving. Let's not forget Ubuntu's role in making Linux accessible, which is a major reason for its current success. It's everywhere, powering a significant portion of the internet, even this platform we're using. Criticisms exist, of course. Unity wasn't universally loved at the time howver people ironically want it back now, and the Amazon integration wasn't ideal (though data was supposedly anonymized). However, Ubuntu actively innovates, and that deserves praise. Support the pioneers of Linux, They're all crucial to the ecosystem's growth, and diversity is a strength. Let's focus on fostering a positive and constructive environment, not negativity. Ubuntu is great, most people just parrot a comment they read on Reddit.

@rumble1925 Жыл бұрын

Still the best distro due to how stable it is imo

@PiddeBas Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, only one important feature of Unity you missed, the HUD.

@samvictorguyvandevelde7815 Жыл бұрын

Sick video; keep it up!

@DistrosProjects Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@grxgghxrpxr Жыл бұрын

love this video 💗

@freddo22gold Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the history lesson Dude

@andersrundgren6557 Ай бұрын

I find the constant mucking with the top menu bar interesting. I have just done a painful transition from Windows to MacOS and I still don't get the point of a context-aware top menu. It is illogical and fuzzy when you have tons on applications running on a high resolution screen.

@jpwillm5252 4 ай бұрын

Good job !

@bolubit-8899 3 ай бұрын

I was only 9 years old when I first tried a Linux based operating system and it was Ubuntu 12.10. I had no idea what I was doing, but I tried to get those fancy window effects to work (I was a sucker for desktop customization and I still am). That obviously didn't work since I was running it on a VM in a PC with 2 GB of RAM and crappy onboard graphics. Fun times. After that the Minecraft era kicked in and I became addicted. But man, I wish I had put more time on trying to learn Linux back then, I was a smart kid. I could've learnt a lot!

@ThePoliteKitten Жыл бұрын

I don't think ubuntu is dead, you can still install it, but i think users don't install it soo much like other distros, but it still makes rolling releases with different desktop enviroments

@joeblow8593 2 ай бұрын

Good video, thanks.

@shantanurahut4005 Жыл бұрын

Do one video on the best Linux distro in your opinion. Subscribed !

@sagichdirdochnicht4653 Жыл бұрын

Ubuntu will always have a very special place in my heart. The first time I ever tried Linux was with Ubuntu 7.10. I was just 13 and tried it, after a buddy urged be to. I basically used Ubuntu until Gnome 3 came along; I think I used Mint after that. I was using Linux on and off over the years, but I've had my share of most Linux "flavors". Today I don't run Ubuntu anymore - directly. But I do use Ubuntu based Distros. They usually offer anything Ubuntu has and then some. But man, do those Gnome 2 Ubuntu Screens revoke nostalgia.

@cordovajose5693 Жыл бұрын

Ubuntu will always have a very special place in my laptop, because it's the only OS/distro I use.

@DonMr Жыл бұрын

Great video.

@DistrosProjects Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@louisromero3752 Ай бұрын

Woah, this music is such a throwback

@Zgembo121 Жыл бұрын

Sick intro and its music

@tonywise198 Ай бұрын

I got my first Ubuntu CD on the front of a PC magazines (Also Red Hat and Linux Mint for that matter). In the early days I collected all of these amazing operating systems Exciting times.

@swedenreality6082 Жыл бұрын

Is that TTD music?

@enofisenoff3810 8 күн бұрын

The years around Hardy Heron (with Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard) were peak computing for the desktop and notebook form factor. Everything changed for the worse and has gone downhill after the iPhone, Gnome 3 and Windows 8.

@JamesRichardWiley 2 ай бұрын

I've been using Ubuntu for ten years and still using it to watch this video. I don't see where the fall is.

@youtubeoneverything4581 Жыл бұрын

nice documentary

@4Nanook 2 ай бұрын

I don't see the downfall you claim, and as for the Gnome-3, I didn't like it either but there was a very simple fix for this, Mate, a Gnome-2 clone ported to GTK--3 (and I hope they follow through with GTK-4). Ubuntu even made a Mate spin just in case typing apt install mate-desktop-extra. It is identical to Gnome-2 except perhaps visually a bit more polished, but the menus remained and the layout the same. This continues into the present with 24.04 which I am currently using.

@rahb1 2 ай бұрын

I started with 5.10 (which I really liked, apart from its obvious failings at the time) and have struggled with some of the changes since then, as I am now 70. My last download was 22.04 LTS and I am starting to wonder if there is a better distro for me? I mostly use Macs, and do NOT want to go back to the pain of Windows (which won't run on this hardware anyway).

@florianvanbondoc3539 Жыл бұрын

quality content here

@cbbcbb6803 Жыл бұрын

Lots of people could not upgrade Ubuntu 18.04. Python3 somehow seems to have broken the upgrade and no one knows how to fix it. Except to delete it and start over with a "fresh" install. That is not a solution. This is as annoying as heck.

@brom1787 9 ай бұрын

Yes, thats the reson im gonna Switch because having to Reinstall anyway

@dinozaurpickupline4221 Жыл бұрын

I hope can follow more content,cheers

@mariotanggo Ай бұрын

Love the ship it era, mine was sent from the netherland. 😊

@B5152g Жыл бұрын

I wish minimalistic actually meant lighter, gnome shell is heavy for the basic stuff it actually does.

@vanuCanCode 6 ай бұрын

I want distro comparison video please.

@HikingFeral 8 ай бұрын

I use Arch and Arch based distros but you will not find me dogging on Ubuntu. I love Debian and Ubuntu and even though I now prefer Arch and believe it is more powerful and better for my needs - Ubuntu and Debian are 2 of the most important, most powerful Linux distributions to have ever ben developed. I use Arch by the way but Arch is for hobbyists, Ubuntu is an extremely important OS both in the public and corporate world, a world which could very easy carry on without Arch and Debian, well...grandad Debian is probably the most stable software I have ever used in 3 decades of computing.

@xspager Жыл бұрын

Early Ubuntu was so good looking

@annamariaisland1960 4 ай бұрын

I haven't used Ubuntu in years (got swallowed by Mac OS), but am sad that it's gone the way of Red Het etc. I suppose when the business model is to give away software to single users but sell a bigger product to corporate customers that eventually the latter will control the design.

@stranded_mariner7695 3 ай бұрын

oh my god, watching this I realise that I have been using Linux since around 2010.

@guilherme5094 8 ай бұрын

👍!

@lunaticsugarboo9759 Жыл бұрын

Make a video on fedora and pop os too

@IndigoJo 2 ай бұрын

GNOME 2 was brilliant. Not immediately on release (I remember the early versions on SUSE 8.1) but after a few minor releases it was. Stable and unobtrusive. I used to program with Qt but it fitted seamlessly into GNOME with the GTK style. GNOME 3 is and always was a dog. They ruined a great desktop. Mind you, KDE got better with version 5 but Ubuntu was never hot on KDE.

@balloney2175 3 ай бұрын

I am Ubuntu lover.

@ab-ky2rj 4 ай бұрын

why the music? is the Ubuntu story boring without the music ?

@nsr-ints 24 күн бұрын

Though it's no longer the spearhead of OSS community as it was, it still exists, now just as another player.

@moosesnWoop Ай бұрын

idk about you guys but I still run ubuntu on WSL,

@nestycb6702 4 күн бұрын

Andalucía mentioned 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

@Sahil-cb6im Жыл бұрын

im using kubuntu 22.10,fast,latest package,stable

@CSCITEK 3 ай бұрын

lol Ubuntu never "fell". It's maybe the defacto standard linux distro

@sybsygstgstsgysg5330 11 ай бұрын

I cant believe how much his voice has changed in 2 years lol

@DistrosProjects 11 ай бұрын

Yup! It's surprising even to me looking back at my older content.

@ericjohnson5990 Жыл бұрын

I hated the snap store. Don’t get wrong, I think Ubuntu is a pretty good choice for the desktop. I just personally wouldn’t choose it for that reason.

@B5152g Жыл бұрын

Pretty much everyone does, Ubuntu has the habit of making drastic changes every couple of years or so that makes their long time users mad..

@dustojnikhummer Жыл бұрын

To me, going to Gnome3 was a strike one and Snaps still are a strike 2.

@vla2uv 4 ай бұрын

There's no fall of Ubuntu, by the opposite it rose more than you think!

@raagamparmar5602 Жыл бұрын

15:13 I agree 200%. The new logo is the worst. This maybe signifies the slow demise of Ubuntu. Also, this is one of the best documentaries I’ve watched. Great job! Looking out for more documentaries! Subbed!

@ultimateavenger5627 11 ай бұрын

For me ubuntu is the only distro which fits best to me.

@ArniesTech Жыл бұрын

Unity was indeed an eye pleaser for me. But none the less, Ubuntu is still the #1 driving force in Linux Desktop 🙏

@chrisfoster3772 Жыл бұрын

Nice video

@JerrySM64 Жыл бұрын

My journey with Linux started with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (With a bit of poking around on my grand-grandfather's laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS back in 2013.). Personally I still hate Canonical for killing off Unity back in 2017. It had everything I wished for. GNOME has gotten better, but there's still something special about Unity's workflow. And Snaps were a pain in the butt at the beginning That's why I left Ubuntu in the dust and went back to Windows. In late 2021, I needed Linux for something and because I didn't want to use WSL, I dual-booted Windows 11 with Linux Mint. Ubuntu wasn't an option for me as I noticed when I ran 20.04 LTS in a VM, that basically half of the OS is now a Snap and I didn't want to have anything to do with them as I had the bad first impression still in my mind. Later I wiped my entire drive and ran only Arch Linux. That was also the time where many of my friends told me to give Snaps a second chance as they have become pretty good these days. And today? Today, I'm using Ubuntu Unity 23.04 development builds, Arch Linux and Fedora 37 on my system. And yes, I'm using Flatpaks and Snaps on all of them. Well made video! I only have one correction to make. The Firefox deb didn't get replaced with the Snap in 22.04. That happened in 21.10 and it really showed the problems that Snaps had until then. But other than that, I really enjoyed watching the documentary.

@FLMKane Жыл бұрын

Personally I still hate canonical for forcing unity onto me back in 2011. I respect them for making it into something that was nice and pretty over the years but that's where their downfall began. The whole idea that they were good enough to redo everything they didn't like even if it broke with the rest of the Linux ecosystems. Eventually they decided that they'd have their own desktop environment, their own display server AND their own sandboxed packages, with each project eventually Keeling over. Fortunately unity is still available. And I admit it's pretty and works well nowadays. But back then and still now I feel Canonical was using me as a test mule and I HATED it. I keept using Ubuntu till 20.4 introduced even more snaps and the finally I uh... snapped and switched to Debian. Now I run Arch btw

@mrawther 5 ай бұрын

Fall of Ubuntu? You guys are crazy.

@PHDWhom Жыл бұрын

What happened? Nothing. Ubuntu is still as strong and as popular as ever, and you got my click with your clickbait title, so kudos for that, I suppose. Ubuntu never fell.

@Alexander-ix2jp 5 ай бұрын

@aayushsrivastava9569 3 ай бұрын

The user experience isn't as good as it used to be. The OS is very slow

@freedomgoddess 3 ай бұрын

the newer ubuntu versions cannot beat 17.04, and they seemingly never will.

@DurpMustard Ай бұрын

Yeah… it’s just that there’s a LOT more people who hate Ubuntu today than there were in 2004, even taking into account how much smaller the Linux community was then

@mihajlocolic01 Ай бұрын

Average youtube clickbait

@donaldklopper 18 күн бұрын

Poor journalism

@MikeRead-pc7gl 3 ай бұрын

@Matt2010 23 күн бұрын

If ya ask me, Linux Mint is way better.

@oldskeptic1513 4 ай бұрын

... for someone who claims knowledge on the matter, it is hilarious to pronounce 'gnome' incorrectly ... "g" is SILENT, as is "k" in knife ... you are embarrassing yourself ...

@DistrosProjects 4 ай бұрын

stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/aui/html/pronunciation.html The official pronunciation *for the desktop environment* is the one I used here, according to that ancient FAQ. However, both seem to be used by the GNOME developers these days; neither pronunciation is “incorrect” when referring to the desktop.

@oldskeptic1513 4 ай бұрын

@@DistrosProjects ... hubris is getting the better of you ... the gnome avatar is a footprint of a mythical creature of a garden gnome, adopted by developers from day one ... typing the word in ANY dictionary on the Web would give you the correct English pronunciation ... 'gnome' is not an acronym as GNU is , because, from the start GNU stands for "(g)NOME NOT UNIX"

@DistrosProjects 4 ай бұрын

@@oldskeptic1513 A gnu, pronounced “new”, also known as a wildebeest, is a type of antelope native to Eastern and southern Africa (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu). The GNU project decided to pronounce it “guh-NEW”. Why? I don’t know, but that is the official pronunciation of the free software project, and since the G in GNOME stands for GNU, that is how the GNOME developers decided it would be pronounced.

@oldskeptic1513 4 ай бұрын

@@DistrosProjects ... please, go away ...

@oldskeptic1513 4 ай бұрын

@@DistrosProjects ... listen to Richard Stillman, who knows quite a bit about Linux, and hear him using the very words ...

@nathangriffiths6218 4 ай бұрын

Could not continue to listen to someone repeatedly pronouncing the "G" in Gnome. It's a silent G!

@fernandobernardo6324 2 ай бұрын

It's how the project GNOME is meant to be pronounced.

@foxdavani4091 10 ай бұрын

Why is this the rise and fall? Ubuntu did not fall. Ubuntu is still an excellent operating system, a very modern operating system and one with a bright future. It did not fall. Putting it under that title. Makes it sound like the operating system has come to an end.

@TronSAHeroXYZ 9 ай бұрын

That might be the driving narrative?

@TronSAHeroXYZ 9 ай бұрын

Canonical?

@foxdavani4091 8 ай бұрын

Maybe but I’m not the kind of person that likes bait and switch titles like this. They make me very angry because they mislead people. America has had so much misleading in the last 40 years that we are the generation that should be honest and rebuild America, not continue this misleading nonsense with these kind of titles. @@TronSAHeroXYZ