Which Ubuntu version did you use back in the day ? What was your first distro ? I started with 6.06 on a crappy laptop and a USB wifi adapter that drove me nuts !
I think I started with Linux Mint on my old laptop not a long time ago, but I switched to Ubuntu 19.04 lately. Also I really like your content, keep it up! :)
My first linux distro was actually Linux Mint 17.1 but I only used it to test, whether the computer still works or not. Ironically I installed Windows 10 on this old machine but it wasn't a pleasant experience. My first real distro I actually used was elementaryOS 0.4.1 in March 2018. Now I am using KDE Neon.
The first operating system (yes I started with Linux) was Ubuntu 7.10 when I was 7, I used Ubuntu for years (with Unity too) alternating it with other distros that I tried just for fun, in the late 2013 needed of touchpad gestures and photo/video editing software made me switch to Windows (at that time Windows 8), It confused me (I didn't knew that the software needed to be downloaded from the web and not from the store as I usually did with Ubuntu), now I'm an happy Windows 10 User (c'mon guys windows on new hardware is not that bad) but my heart still belongs to linux, at this time I see something moving like davinci resolve for linux, but can't live without photoshop/affinity photo and great, smooth and fluid touchpad gestures (with pixel smooth zoom too) that unfortunately any distro can't offer me...
I started with Lubuntu in a virtual machine and later I fell in love with Kubuntu (also I loved elementary os but nowadays I don't think I would use it like a primary OS because I prefer KDE plasma desktop)
Ubuntu 7.10 was the very first time i ever use Linux. I was using a program that y'all may remember called Wubi, so i don't have to nuke my Windows XP installation. My very first experience with Ubuntu was not great. Because it didn't recognize my Wi-Fi adapter. So i couldn't update it, or surf the web. Thankfully my love with Linux was growing in the future when it gotten better, over the years
Thanks for the video, it's always nice to remember, I started at 10.04, now I'm on 19.04, we miss Unity and its top panel, we'll see what the future holds.
A great video, thank you for sharing. I've been on Linux Mint for the last few months & can't get over how good it is & it's free, when doing the updates, it doesn't require a restart either!
4.10, the first was my first Ubuntu. Running 18.04 right on on this computer. I do miss that Classic Ubuntu feel though. I want the Ubuntu startup sound and the loading splash screen back!
I'm very late to the party but congrats Nick for this video. I don't remember exactly how, but I discovered ubuntu almost by accident in 2004, when warty came out. I was a desperate xp user, looking for something better and struggling with SuSE, Mandrake and the other "easy" linux distros of that period. At the time, the problem was that free of charge linux distros were almost "trial" products to make you buy a big, fat boxed version with all the things you actually needed, such as additional restricted drivers, full featured software and other amenities. Distros like debian were already available but they were extremely difficult to install and if you happened to be a newbie, it sucked to be you. Ubuntu was different: it had all what people needed to actually switch to linux. They gave you a single CD with everything you needed and if you wanted something else, everything was ready do download with synaptic. They chose for you a single DE forcing you to use GNOME or either KDE (if you chose Kubuntu instead), but avoiding the usual mess that newbies caused by installing "everything" offered by other distros during the setup process. It also packed so many drivers that ubuntu basically worked out of the box without hassles. It was brown and ugly but it worked like magic, and for free. I was hooked immediately and I switched entirely from xp. I then used basically all the gnome 2 based versions until I destroyed my pc and I finally got a mac. I used mac os for several years and I came back to the modern era of linux in 2019. I still feel ubuntu as familiar as it once was, but something is changed... And I think it's the ambition of really bringing linux desktop to the masses. Actually nobody is trying anymore as ubuntu once did, and it's really sad.
I started with 9.10 and this is the best version of ubuntu which i ever used. fast, nice, and first. (im just crying in the corner of room because of nostalgia) thanks for video, man
16.04 was the only ever release where they at least managed for a year to keep the dev and source code packages synchronized so you could single stop into gtk source code with your debugger.
I also started out with Ubuntu… in fact, my little sister used my old Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 installed on it for about two years. She later gave it to a friend who used the same 2004 laptop probably until it was 10 years old.
I love the latest Ubuntu versions with Gnome. I've found them very stable and feature rich, and Gnome Tweaks, themes and extensions just make customising the UI and appearance of your desktop so quick and simple.
Simply put, if you use Linux for work, chances are you use Ubuntu or one of its modern derivatives (e.g. Elementary or Pop!_OS). And for a good reason. It works. Always. Unless you break it by being reckless, the system won't let you down.
I started with Linux on Ubuntu in about 2008 -- so Ubuntu 8.04. I'm still using it today -- 18.10 and 19.04 between two computers. I plan on switching my most-used computer to Arch eventually because I like the latest versions of all my software, but Ubuntu is still good.
My first distro is Ubuntu 9.04 i start using Gnu/Linux in my college back in 2009, i left Ubuntu and distro hopping for few years, i settled with Fedora since 2011, and haven't look back. Thank you Ubuntu for the memory,
Unity was ahead of its time, people weren't ready for it. I tried it exactly once, and hated it, but I think it would have been more popular if they had until maybe 14.04 LTS to introduce it.
I remember when I got Ubuntu 6.06 bundled with the first laptop that my family bought it for home use, even though I did my first time Ubuntu installation back in 2012 with 12.04. Still feel nostalgic with the 6.06 for me as a kid back in 2007.
It's pretty rare here at that time to get a laptop with a Linux distro pre-installed from the vendor, and there's only one vendor that I found doing so.
I started using Linux at dapper drake. Stayed with 10.04 for a while because of Windows Vista and then went to Mac. I left Ubuntu for good at unity. When I started getting back into Linux a few years later Linux Mint had ran off and left everyone else by far so I went with that.
Wow! You installed all the different versions of Ubuntu! I think some of the older versions looked nicer than the recent versions, But the latest versions of Ubuntu look great! I'm really exited for the future of Ubuntu.Thank for making this great very informative video, as always!
To be honest, it wasn't too terrible, apart from getting Ubuntu 11.04 to run in a VM. Unity 3D does not like virtualization. Had to install it on Parallels desktop on a Mac to finally get it out work :) that got me stick for a good month or two !
Well it was on and off, I mostly tried to work on recording stuff on the weekends, and I got stick with 11.04 not working, so it delayed me for a bit while I recorded other stuff. When I wrote the script, Ubuntu 18.10 had just been released, but I put it on pause for a long while
0:45 I love it. I mostly use Ubuntu and its derivatives, and they are really good for me. Even for an end user they would be pretty easy to get used to.
@@dustinschings7042 yeah but was a solution that came so many years later, I have test it and is the closest distro, yes but I did made a life in windows later that at least for now I can't change.
i started the ubuntu saga with 6.1, didnt liked it switched back to debian, until it came to 10.04 then i started using it again on most my computers, loved it, used it at work too (it was nice for education and schools), nice videos, are you goind to do more distros evolutions videos like this ? anyway nice channel i'm onboard.
First time I got connected with Ubuntu was last year in the computer's room of my university, it was still in 16.04 using the Unity, so in home I installed the Ubuntu and got surprised it was in 18.04, but I liked Gnome better than Unity, the last 19.04 didn't change too much the Ubuntu but the new Gnome and Linux 5.0 helps a lot in game improvment, I played some games and earned much more FPS than what I expected
I started off with 12.04. I ran it on my parents PC from '07 that they aren't using anymore. That was a fun experience, but I wasn't ready to switch to Linux full time. I went back to using it around 16.04 in my laptop just after I built my gaming PC. I switched from Unity as my main desktop to Plasma just before 17.04. However, I still use Unity on another laptop that my brother doesn't use anymore (very decent 4/8 4th gen i7 ft I got for $160).
Thanks for the great video! I think my first version was 4. I remember getting a free version of it from a linux magazine. Then I did order some of the latter versions on DVD. Which i still have 1 or 2 of them
Why the different Ubuntu flavors don't have an unified (or at least aligned) theming and design language? Like for example Manjaro, that has several desktop environments (Gnome, Xfce, KDE) but all share icons, colours and other design cues.
6.6 and 8.4 was the best one. There are reasons why they become the gold standard .. and reasons why they lost it. With Yaru coming in 20.4 (dark folder icons) i have to say i miss the old brown theme.
My Filipina wife switched to Ubuntu and didn't miss a beat. When I first mentioned switching her computer over, I told her she could duel boot and if she wanted could still have windows. Her favorite color is lavender, so I made her a beautiful lavender background. I don't think she ever used Windows again.
Especially as someone pretty new to Linux community it's interesting to see what these were like back in the day. I think it'd be pretty interesting to see a video with a popular distro at that time compared to the latest Windows version. Comparing the looks, ease of use and functionality.
Ubuntu was always an ambitious project since its inception and had immense potential till they switched back to Gnome 3 and canned almost all projects. Today Ubuntu is an empty shell of its former self, and it makes me incredibly sad.
Technically Unity was a fan created Ubuntu distro that had existed for certain types of devices for a while as a spinoff distro before it was integrated upstream. Ubuntu themselves didn't just decide to create it from scratch for the Ubuntu Desktop. They decided to merge the project upstream and greatly rushed the entire process for the release date making the actual initial upstream merge and integration horrible with constant errors and crashing and left a bad first impression with everyone partly leading to all of the hate against Unity. Everything was smoothed out eventually but I think it took several releases to really work out the bugs and major issues. It was considered a total disaster of a release and they should have taken the time to more carefully integrate it upstream and not rushed it all at once. Regardless, Ubuntu did not create unity for the desktop to give it a new look, it was already created and being used by a totally different group of people, it just had a really bad botched integration job to mainstream official Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 10.04 was the first Linux distro I used on the regular, though I'd also tried 9.10 from a live-cd. 10.10 was by far my favorite release, though! Immediately afterwards Canonical started focusing on Unity, which I disliked, so Ubuntu fell out of my favor for a long while. I've only recently started to think about switching back to Linux.
i started with ubuntu 14.04... i change to linux 'cause i had some issues with windows 7, i liked ubuntu, but i tried to move back to windows, i installed win 8.1.... after few days i had switched back to ubuntu 14.04 and i used that version for a very long time... now i m using 18.04... of course i had used more linux distro in vm and dual boot but ubuntiu is my favorite
I think the first version I used was Ubuntu 12. I had an HP laptop that was supported officially but it ran horribly. Today I use Ubuntu Budgie on my gaming laptop.
My favorite Ubuntu ever was the one they sent you in a CD thru mail, it was my first experience with Linux , also knoppix was another great distro .i had to switch when they change to gnome 3 .
One on Fedora, starting from the Red Hat (not Enterprise) Linux era could be interesting too, even though its history is less tumultuous than the one of Ubuntu . :)
Actually, while Unity8 was discontinued, Mir was not. Canonical continues today its development, even though its use case is now more focused on kiosks, rather than running a desktop.
Tellement de nostalgie, ubuntu 6.06 quand j'avais 5 ans. Tous ces souvenirs qui reviennent. J'en ai passé des journées sur tuxracer, tuxkart et supertux :p
Ubuntu was the first distribution I ever used, and Ubuntu 10.04 was the first version of it that I used. So when it quickly went from something my old computers could run pretty well, to a desktop called Unity that didn't run well on anything hurt me so much. I learned about more distributions like Mint and Zorin at the time, and I wanted to help everyone I could switch to Linux because it was cooler. But, turns out, it was damn near impossible because everybody had that one thing they needed to do that Linux simply didn't do well. Linux was like a brand new toy when I started using it as a senior in high school. Now, it's just the biggest disappointment I've ever faced as a tech person.
We started on 09.04. Like so many say the 10.04 was good and 10.10 was fantastic. Boy, do we miss Gnome 2! Then the Linux desktop was killed with Gnome 3 and Unity. Finally Mint came around with Cinnamon in 2014 and we have been there since.
@@MarcoMissere Yea, it was created back then, but it was almost worthless, crashing and full of bugs till 2014 or so. Mate wasn't much better either. I actually went back to Xp for a while, I was so disappointed.
I'm pretty sure the first version I tried was 7.10. I actually ordered a copy of it on CD from the website. It's was a fun experience getting everything working on my Dell laptop. Since then I've run some form of *buntu on all my computers.
I tried Ubuntu 5.04 on a Pentium II, I had standing around. But I really started using Ubuntu in a dual boot with Windows Vista in 2008, when I bought my last new laptop for work. When I retired I stopped using Windows and went full time to Ubuntu. Till 2014 I used it on a Pentium 4, from 2014 till May 2019 I used it on my 4 core Phenom II and now I'm on Ubuntu 19.04 with my Ryzen 3 2200G. I love Ubuntu, it is boringly reliable.
One minor nitpick. At 7:40 you mentioned Unity *and* Mir was cancelled. Mir was never cancelled. It's still actively developed. For some reason people at the time took "Unity 8 cancelled" and "Unity 8 requires Mir" to mean "Mir is cancelled", which it never was :)
@@TheLinuxEXP You're not alone. I dunno where it came from, but the press were all saying it at the time. So much that on Ubuntu podcast we have a recurring segment called "Mir's not dead" :)
Yeah I guess both projects were conflated in people's mind (including mine) since I seem to remember that the rationale for developing Mir was that it was easier to bring convergence between devices. I guess since the team focused on Mir and Unity 8, people assumed the two were linked. Nice title for a segment though ^^
Breezy Badger was my first taste of Ubuntu! Unfortunately I didn't know what I was doing at the time so I overwrote my XP installation and lost so much important data! My brother hated me for that coz it was a shared desktop, haha. Good old times.
To be honest I loved Unity for its uniqueness and featureset (especially the shortcut display when holding down the super key and the search by alt) and hated Gnome 3 for making the desktop interface a bit weird and extremely limited like making the power button not work like a power button and put the computer to sleep. I did however find my saving grace with Kubuntu since it worked better than Ubuntu did on my netbook and had a specific netbook mode as well at the time (14.10 I believe). As KDE matured I switched from Kubuntu to KDE neon and I can say that I never looked back.
I used ubuntu 9 for the first time ye as a kid That time my copy of windows 7 was broken so my father installed ubuntu on it and dual booted it I didn't know what i was doing and it was really laggy just to play a online game
When I used Linux for the first time, it was with Ubuntu 16.04. The one that had all the bugs. It wasn't a pleasant experience, at least it recognized my Wifi card and was able to install the driver offline. But I kept going because I wanted to prepare myself for not paying for Windows when I get something like a self built PC that I want to save 100€ on. This is why I also kept using Linux even after getting a laptop that came with a Windows licence
I loved Ubuntu and what Ubuntu offered until 10.10 with 10.04 being my long term distro until switching to Mint. It just seemed from 5.04 to 10.10 The Ubuntu desktop was just getting better, better, and better. But Unity was really a step back for me. I never liked the multiple bars and such. Gnome 3 being even worse. But this last release really this month I really seen huge improvements in the interface over all. It doesn't feel so clunky and it looks really good. Maybe we'll see another era? It's just a shame they didn't apply this to an LTS!
@@TheLinuxEXP I am not huge on the Gnome 3 interface, but I was really impressed over all with this last release. Even the default wallpaper looks pretty slick!
For the first 5 years Ubuntu was amazing. I even switched over from my flip flopping between Red Hat and SUSE. But I saw the writing on the wall in 2010 and stopped using it or recommending it.
I started with Ubuntu 5.10. I think Hardy thru Karmic were the best. I didn't like the change of colors from Lucid onwards. I only used Unity for a couple of months and I switched to gnome-session/ubuntu-gnome until they adopted gnome shell back. Nowadays I'm temped by Arch, maybe I'll switch in the future
I think I started with Linux with Ubuntu 10.04 on recommendation from a friend. Then Ubuntu came with the Unity desktop and I got confused, didn't understand this interface and it was not working well. It made me even switch back to Windows for a while 🙄, until I started investigating further in Linux and found Linux Mint.
It.was fantastic. The theme stayed for just 1 release, but Ubuntu One was a great idea at the time, and it was Rock solid. Still in love with the intrepid ibex wallpaper though.
I started using Linux as a daily driver with Ubuntu 8.10, I dual booted it with Windows, and hardly ever needed to boot into Windows Sadly I have been using Windows exclusively since 2014 for video production, wish Adobe would port its creative suite to Linux, then I'd never look back
God I loved Koala back then. Worked so fine on every machine! My 2 main games WC3 and WoW also ran perfectly fine. Had a Linux only Desktop and Zepto Laptop! Then came Lynx. Hardware support got worse?? Laptop was half broken after updating... switched back to win7...
@@TheLinuxEXP Wifi was gone, touch was gone, usb was gone. Needed to get hdd access under win (had dual boot setup) going to save my data and never looked back. These days I am enjoying Fedora29 on a Thinkpad P1. :)
*having window control buttons on the left* -- "YOU'RE JUST COPYNG MAC!!!" *having window control buttons on the right* -- "YOU'RE JUST COPYING WINDOWS!!!" *having window control buttons in the middle* -- "YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO BE DIFFERENT FOR THE SAKE OF BEING DIFFERENT!!!"
@@TheLinuxEXP I actually skipped 18.10 because I was so happy with 18.04, but 19.04 really is faster so I'm glad I decided to move to 19.04...and how could someone resist DISCO DINGO! Their best wallpaper to date.
Great video. Subscribed. I moved away from Ubuntu when they went to Unity, and even now it's still got that crap UI. I'm so glad Xubuntu still exists. I could use Ubuntu MATE, but that seems broken. I switched to Linux Mint (Cinnamon, MATE is broken) as my main distro.
Thanks ! Well, I liked what Unity was trying to do, and I was getting tired with GNOME 2. It never felt totally coherent though. Gnome 3 is the one I use nowadays, but I really enjoyed Cinnamon when I tried it on Mint. MATE and XFCE, I still have to spend more time with.
@@TheLinuxEXP I'm a big fan of the classic old Interface. I find Unity and the latter counterproductive and screen wasting, and just overall really don't like the UI.
What I was really starting to hate was the regular taskbar. Its inefficient, used too much space, and is too small. I like having an autohidden dock and using the keyboard to switch between windows.
Personally, I think Canonical should focus their attention on Wayland development. Xorg is probably the second biggest bottleneck on Linux after the lack luster NVIDIA support. But unlike with NVIDIA drivers, Canonical has the ability to push Wayland closer to the point where it could completely replace Xorg.
Yeah Wayland is not ready right now. I stead of working on Mir for a few years, had they contributes to Wayland, it would probably be in a more usable state !
@RipCityBassWorks I can play Vulkan games on Steam in 4k with decent framerates on my 1080Ti. What is this lack of NVIDIA drivers you are talking about?
@@StarryNightSky587 Maybe it's changed in the last couple of months? I had a GTX 1050 and it never worked properly on Ubuntu or Manjaro. It worked alright on Solus and Linux Mint, but those are not my preferred distos. AMD just has much better support for Linux.
my first distro is linux mint cinnamon,but to be honest sometimes i am not feels happy because "mint" is too biased to tell it as similar ui to windows,and from my experience No,its similar to but not similar to modern windows starting from WINDOWS7 its feels more like better version of windows vista,so from my prespective de that looks like traditional windows is : Xfce/lxqt/de kde 3 : windows xp or windows 2000 or windows 9x or windows classic like ui chinnamon : better version of WINDOWS vista kde 4 : windows vista/7 like ui plasma/kde 5 : better version of windows 10 and modern version of windows 7
Which Ubuntu version did you use back in the day ? What was your first distro ? I started with 6.06 on a crappy laptop and a USB wifi adapter that drove me nuts !
I think I started with Linux Mint on my old laptop not a long time ago, but I switched to Ubuntu 19.04 lately. Also I really like your content, keep it up! :)
Thanks ! Mint is a great starting point :)
My first linux distro was actually Linux Mint 17.1 but I only used it to test, whether the computer still works or not. Ironically I installed Windows 10 on this old machine but it wasn't a pleasant experience. My first real distro I actually used was elementaryOS 0.4.1 in March 2018. Now I am using KDE Neon.
The first operating system (yes I started with Linux) was Ubuntu 7.10 when I was 7, I used Ubuntu for years (with Unity too) alternating it with other distros that I tried just for fun, in the late 2013 needed of touchpad gestures and photo/video editing software made me switch to Windows (at that time Windows 8), It confused me (I didn't knew that the software needed to be downloaded from the web and not from the store as I usually did with Ubuntu), now I'm an happy Windows 10 User (c'mon guys windows on new hardware is not that bad) but my heart still belongs to linux, at this time I see something moving like davinci resolve for linux, but can't live without photoshop/affinity photo and great, smooth and fluid touchpad gestures (with pixel smooth zoom too) that unfortunately any distro can't offer me...
I started with Lubuntu in a virtual machine and later I fell in love with Kubuntu (also I loved elementary os but nowadays I don't think I would use it like a primary OS because I prefer KDE plasma desktop)
Ubuntu 4.10: Desktop Icons!
Ubuntu 19.04: Wait, that's illegal.
Ubuntu 7.10 was the very first time i ever use Linux. I was using a program that y'all may remember called Wubi, so i don't have to nuke my Windows XP installation. My very first experience with Ubuntu was not great. Because it didn't recognize my Wi-Fi adapter. So i couldn't update it, or surf the web. Thankfully my love with Linux was growing in the future when it gotten better, over the years
Oh Wubi. I never used it but it helped a lot to convince people to try out Ubuntu !
I think 7.10 my first too, i get it from free cd program,
10.04 was my first which I used with Wubi. I got the free ubuntu cd from ubuntu website too .
My favorite was probably 16.04, I really miss Unity
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-unity-desktop
after that command use lightdm
@@tflsh wait so unity still there!?
anf i am recreating unity using kde latte dock with menuz plasmoid
Shiro Craft yes, but i think it’s discontinued, but it still works.
There is a Unity Remix of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
My favorite ubuntu version (STILL) is 14.04 LTS. after 2015 mICROSHAFT unofficialy bought canonical.
Thanks for the video, it's always nice to remember, I started at 10.04, now I'm on 19.04, we miss Unity and its top panel, we'll see what the future holds.
Ubuntu MATE.
The cube desktop effects were awesome. Loved those effects.
The time I spent playing with Compile at the time was just way too high !
The Linux Experiment hehe. I spent quite some time with that too... I regret none of it ;)
I believe Ubuntu 12.04 was the very first distro I tried and what got me interested in Linux.
That was a good one ! Unity has solved most of it's issues, and it was pretty stable
Same here.
same hereeeee
12.04 on a 32gb thumbdrive when my hd broke
same?
That video was a blessing! Thank you for making it! I rmemeber all the versions :D :D
Thanks for watching :) it was fun to make !
A great video, thank you for sharing. I've been on Linux Mint for the last few months & can't get over how good it is & it's free, when doing the updates, it doesn't require a restart either!
Thanks a lot :) Linux has a ton of advantages over other systems, if it works well on your hardware, I feel it's the best option out there !
4.10, the first was my first Ubuntu. Running 18.04 right on on this computer. I do miss that Classic Ubuntu feel though. I want the Ubuntu startup sound and the loading splash screen back!
Those drums, man !
I'm very late to the party but congrats Nick for this video. I don't remember exactly how, but I discovered ubuntu almost by accident in 2004, when warty came out. I was a desperate xp user, looking for something better and struggling with SuSE, Mandrake and the other "easy" linux distros of that period. At the time, the problem was that free of charge linux distros were almost "trial" products to make you buy a big, fat boxed version with all the things you actually needed, such as additional restricted drivers, full featured software and other amenities. Distros like debian were already available but they were extremely difficult to install and if you happened to be a newbie, it sucked to be you. Ubuntu was different: it had all what people needed to actually switch to linux. They gave you a single CD with everything you needed and if you wanted something else, everything was ready do download with synaptic. They chose for you a single DE forcing you to use GNOME or either KDE (if you chose Kubuntu instead), but avoiding the usual mess that newbies caused by installing "everything" offered by other distros during the setup process. It also packed so many drivers that ubuntu basically worked out of the box without hassles. It was brown and ugly but it worked like magic, and for free. I was hooked immediately and I switched entirely from xp. I then used basically all the gnome 2 based versions until I destroyed my pc and I finally got a mac. I used mac os for several years and I came back to the modern era of linux in 2019. I still feel ubuntu as familiar as it once was, but something is changed... And I think it's the ambition of really bringing linux desktop to the masses. Actually nobody is trying anymore as ubuntu once did, and it's really sad.
I appreciate canonical for putting so much effort for bringing out the best changes and for free. I still love ubuntu and use it as my primary os.
I started with 9.10 and this is the best version of ubuntu which i ever used. fast, nice, and first. (im just crying in the corner of room because of nostalgia) thanks for video, man
Thanks for watching :)
8.04 was the most pleasant to use at the time. 16.04 was most robust one tho
16.04 was the only ever release where they at least managed for a year to keep the dev and source code packages synchronized so you could single stop into gtk source code with your debugger.
8.04 was the most aesthetically pleasing and organized yes
Being in Ubuntu since 10.04. I moved to Ubuntu Mate around 16.04. My daughters were using Ubuntu 14.04 until I moved them to Mate this year.
I also started out with Ubuntu… in fact, my little sister used my old Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 installed on it for about two years. She later gave it to a friend who used the same 2004 laptop probably until it was 10 years old.
I love the latest Ubuntu versions with Gnome. I've found them very stable and feature rich, and Gnome Tweaks, themes and extensions just make customising the UI and appearance of your desktop so quick and simple.
Simply put, if you use Linux for work, chances are you use Ubuntu or one of its modern derivatives (e.g. Elementary or Pop!_OS). And for a good reason. It works. Always. Unless you break it by being reckless, the system won't let you down.
Yeah debian ans Ubuntu based distros are pretty much rock solid
Currently using Pop OS. What an amazing distro tbh. Finally found a distro that looks and feels polished.
It looks really nice !
Debian is my go to. It just works. Packages are a bit old, but it does what I need it to with no hiccups at all.
My software jobs have all used CentOS, but I do prefer Ubuntu
My first Ubuntu was 18.04 ... i loved it but now i'm on 19.04 and it's like i change again ! I love it even more
These are great releases !
My first was 14.04, I kinda liked it though
I've tried every version of gnome but I cannot work without the gnome 3 activities overview. It is so useful
Been using some version of "The Buntus", mostly Xubuntu since 5.10.
It´ s been quite a ride, but I´ m still loving it !
It's been a while now !
I started with Linux on Ubuntu in about 2008 -- so Ubuntu 8.04. I'm still using it today -- 18.10 and 19.04 between two computers. I plan on switching my most-used computer to Arch eventually because I like the latest versions of all my software, but Ubuntu is still good.
Nice ! 10 years of Ubuntu :)
My first distro is Ubuntu 9.04
i start using Gnu/Linux in my college back in 2009,
i left Ubuntu and distro hopping for few years, i settled with Fedora since 2011, and haven't look back.
Thank you Ubuntu for the memory,
Great job, this is one of the best videos you’ve ever made. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot :)
Great video! My first distro was Ubuntu 10.04, thank you for remeinding me how cool that was.
Thanks for watching ! Lucid Lynx was awesome, the new theme really was great at the time, I liked it more than what Ambiance became afterwards
Thanks to this wonderful Ubuntu that I'm using Zorin OS today and am happy with
Linux.
The idea of inventing new DE in Unity was a great one, but it may be a matter of resources available to build robust foundation for that project.
Yeah that's definitely the issue, I think they focused on too many things and lacked the resources to advance all projects enough
Unity was ahead of its time, people weren't ready for it. I tried it exactly once, and hated it, but I think it would have been more popular if they had until maybe 14.04 LTS to introduce it.
ubuntu 20.04 is really good
I remember when I got Ubuntu 6.06 bundled with the first laptop that my family bought it for home use, even though I did my first time Ubuntu installation back in 2012 with 12.04. Still feel nostalgic with the 6.06 for me as a kid back in 2007.
Wow, I didn't know they sold Ubuntu bundled laptops at the time !
It's pretty rare here at that time to get a laptop with a Linux distro pre-installed from the vendor, and there's only one vendor that I found doing so.
In France it was basically impossible to find any reseller of anything preinstalled with Linux. It's a bit easier nowadays !
That's good to hear as now it's easier to get any preinstalled or to install by yourself :).
I started using Linux at dapper drake. Stayed with 10.04 for a while because of Windows Vista and then went to Mac. I left Ubuntu for good at unity. When I started getting back into Linux a few years later Linux Mint had ran off and left everyone else by far so I went with that.
Nice, me too ! It was a great release back in the day, really made Linux as a whole a better experience !
Your story could also be mine :-) exactly same story here :-)
Wow! You installed all the different versions of Ubuntu!
I think some of the older versions looked nicer than the recent versions, But the latest versions of Ubuntu look great! I'm really exited for the future of Ubuntu.Thank for making this great very informative video, as always!
Took a bit of time ^^
@@TheLinuxEXP Hmm.. I see, It should've taken a *bit* of time, yea.
To be honest, it wasn't too terrible, apart from getting Ubuntu 11.04 to run in a VM. Unity 3D does not like virtualization. Had to install it on Parallels desktop on a Mac to finally get it out work :) that got me stick for a good month or two !
@@TheLinuxEXP I knew it should've took a long time, but... 2 MONTHS? Wow!
Well it was on and off, I mostly tried to work on recording stuff on the weekends, and I got stick with 11.04 not working, so it delayed me for a bit while I recorded other stuff. When I wrote the script, Ubuntu 18.10 had just been released, but I put it on pause for a long while
So, 19.04 is another service release basically just refreshing apps and kernel. And thats fine imho.
Nice video! You reminded me of some good memories I have from the golden age with compiz. :)
Thanks :)
0:45 I love it. I mostly use Ubuntu and its derivatives, and they are really good for me. Even for an end user they would be pretty easy to get used to.
Ubuntu 10.10 still live on my heart... never used ubuntu again after unity...
Ubuntu Mate = Ubuntu without Unity
@@dustinschings7042 yeah but was a solution that came so many years later, I have test it and is the closest distro, yes but I did made a life in windows later that at least for now I can't change.
try ubuntu 20.04 now :) its very good stable fast
My school library had I think ~7.04 installed, but I didn't get into Ubuntu and Linux until 10.10. time flies
i started the ubuntu saga with 6.1, didnt liked it switched back to debian, until it came to 10.04 then i started using it again on most my computers, loved it, used it at work too (it was nice for education and schools), nice videos, are you goind to do more distros evolutions videos like this ? anyway nice channel i'm onboard.
Thanks ! I'll probably make others, yes :)
First time I got connected with Ubuntu was last year in the computer's room of my university, it was still in 16.04 using the Unity, so in home I installed the Ubuntu and got surprised it was in 18.04, but I liked Gnome better than Unity, the last 19.04 didn't change too much the Ubuntu but the new Gnome and Linux 5.0 helps a lot in game improvment, I played some games and earned much more FPS than what I expected
The new v5 kernel has a lot of performance improvements :)
The good old days! Thanks 😊
You're welcome :)
I started off with 12.04. I ran it on my parents PC from '07 that they aren't using anymore. That was a fun experience, but I wasn't ready to switch to Linux full time. I went back to using it around 16.04 in my laptop just after I built my gaming PC.
I switched from Unity as my main desktop to Plasma just before 17.04. However, I still use Unity on another laptop that my brother doesn't use anymore (very decent 4/8 4th gen i7 ft I got for $160).
Nice !
Thanks for the great video! I think my first version was 4. I remember getting a free version of it from a linux magazine. Then I did order some of the latter versions on DVD. Which i still have 1 or 2 of them
Thanks for watching ! This free shipping thing was a really neat idea !
I started in the Linux world in 2010 with Ubuntu. Nowadays I can still say that Ubuntu rocks!
It's still a great distro !
Why the different Ubuntu flavors don't have an unified (or at least aligned) theming and design language? Like for example Manjaro, that has several desktop environments (Gnome, Xfce, KDE) but all share icons, colours and other design cues.
1:16 renaming is hard
Hahah yeah qwerty keyboards are not my friends
@@TheLinuxEXP Team azerty
Absolutely :)
6.6 and 8.4 was the best one. There are reasons why they become the gold standard .. and reasons why they lost it. With Yaru coming in 20.4 (dark folder icons) i have to say i miss the old brown theme.
My Filipina wife switched to Ubuntu and didn't miss a beat. When I first mentioned switching her computer over, I told her she could duel boot and if she wanted could still have windows. Her favorite color is lavender, so I made her a beautiful lavender background. I don't think she ever used Windows again.
Haha I used the colour trick on my GF at the time as well. Made her a nice green KDE desktop znd that convinced her :)
ha ha ha Nice @@TheLinuxEXP
Especially as someone pretty new to Linux community it's interesting to see what these were like back in the day.
I think it'd be pretty interesting to see a video with a popular distro at that time compared to the latest Windows version. Comparing the looks, ease of use and functionality.
True ! Might look into that !
Ubuntu was always an ambitious project since its inception and had immense potential till they switched back to Gnome 3 and canned almost all projects. Today Ubuntu is an empty shell of its former self, and it makes me incredibly sad.
Don't know what the older users meant by "Unity is the best", I mean, I started using ubuntu from gnome, and It works just fine :/
Technically Unity was a fan created Ubuntu distro that had existed for certain types of devices for a while as a spinoff distro before it was integrated upstream. Ubuntu themselves didn't just decide to create it from scratch for the Ubuntu Desktop. They decided to merge the project upstream and greatly rushed the entire process for the release date making the actual initial upstream merge and integration horrible with constant errors and crashing and left a bad first impression with everyone partly leading to all of the hate against Unity. Everything was smoothed out eventually but I think it took several releases to really work out the bugs and major issues. It was considered a total disaster of a release and they should have taken the time to more carefully integrate it upstream and not rushed it all at once. Regardless, Ubuntu did not create unity for the desktop to give it a new look, it was already created and being used by a totally different group of people, it just had a really bad botched integration job to mainstream official Ubuntu.
It was used in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10. It was merged upstream in Ubuntu 11.04.
Ubuntu 10.04 was the first Linux distro I used on the regular, though I'd also tried 9.10 from a live-cd.
10.10 was by far my favorite release, though! Immediately afterwards Canonical started focusing on Unity, which I disliked, so Ubuntu fell out of my favor for a long while. I've only recently started to think about switching back to Linux.
Now is the time :) 10.10 looked amazing ! It was such a nice theme and GNOME 2 at its peak
i started with ubuntu 14.04... i change to linux 'cause i had some issues with windows 7, i liked ubuntu, but i tried to move back to windows, i installed win 8.1.... after few days i had switched back to ubuntu 14.04 and i used that version for a very long time... now i m using 18.04... of course i had used more linux distro in vm and dual boot but ubuntiu is my favorite
I think the first version I used was Ubuntu 12. I had an HP laptop that was supported officially but it ran horribly. Today I use Ubuntu Budgie on my gaming laptop.
My favorite Ubuntu ever was the one they sent you in a CD thru mail, it was my first experience with Linux , also knoppix was another great distro .i had to switch when they change to gnome 3 .
I honestly really like Ubuntu's interface. It was best with Unity though
One on Fedora, starting from the Red Hat (not Enterprise) Linux era could be interesting too, even though its history is less tumultuous than the one of Ubuntu
. :)
Yeah could be, I definitely like making these kind of videos :)
Actually, while Unity8 was discontinued, Mir was not. Canonical continues today its development, even though its use case is now more focused on kiosks, rather than running a desktop.
Yeah I got some comments pointing that out ! My bad :)
Tellement de nostalgie, ubuntu 6.06 quand j'avais 5 ans. Tous ces souvenirs qui reviennent. J'en ai passé des journées sur tuxracer, tuxkart et supertux :p
J'ai passé un été pluvieux a finir Supertux avec mon petit frère sur Ubuntu 7.04 :)
@@TheLinuxEXP je refesais les premiers niveaux en boucle, j'ai jamais réussi à passer la ou les 2 chemins se séparent :p
Le jeu était bien dur !
Ubuntu was the first distribution I ever used, and Ubuntu 10.04 was the first version of it that I used. So when it quickly went from something my old computers could run pretty well, to a desktop called Unity that didn't run well on anything hurt me so much. I learned about more distributions like Mint and Zorin at the time, and I wanted to help everyone I could switch to Linux because it was cooler. But, turns out, it was damn near impossible because everybody had that one thing they needed to do that Linux simply didn't do well. Linux was like a brand new toy when I started using it as a senior in high school. Now, it's just the biggest disappointment I've ever faced as a tech person.
We started on 09.04. Like so many say the 10.04 was good and 10.10 was fantastic. Boy, do we miss Gnome 2! Then the Linux desktop was killed with Gnome 3 and Unity. Finally Mint came around with Cinnamon in 2014 and we have been there since.
Cinnamon was already come around in 2012.
@@MarcoMissere Yea, it was created back then, but it was almost worthless, crashing and full of bugs till 2014 or so. Mate wasn't much better either. I actually went back to Xp for a while, I was so disappointed.
I came along after Unity was a thing and I still miss GNOME 2
Those three menus were weapons from a more civilized age
First version I used was 14.04. I had a netbook with Windows 7 Starter that would BSOD at boot, so I used an Ubuntu live USB with persistence.
I'm pretty sure the first version I tried was 7.10. I actually ordered a copy of it on CD from the website. It's was a fun experience getting everything working on my Dell laptop. Since then I've run some form of *buntu on all my computers.
I tried Ubuntu 5.04 on a Pentium II, I had standing around. But I really started using Ubuntu in a dual boot with Windows Vista in 2008, when I bought my last new laptop for work. When I retired I stopped using Windows and went full time to Ubuntu. Till 2014 I used it on a Pentium 4, from 2014 till May 2019 I used it on my 4 core Phenom II and now I'm on Ubuntu 19.04 with my Ryzen 3 2200G. I love Ubuntu, it is boringly reliable.
One minor nitpick. At 7:40 you mentioned Unity *and* Mir was cancelled. Mir was never cancelled. It's still actively developed. For some reason people at the time took "Unity 8 cancelled" and "Unity 8 requires Mir" to mean "Mir is cancelled", which it never was :)
Thanks for the clarification ! I always assumed both projects were linked and canceled together, my bad !
@@TheLinuxEXP You're not alone. I dunno where it came from, but the press were all saying it at the time. So much that on Ubuntu podcast we have a recurring segment called "Mir's not dead" :)
Yeah I guess both projects were conflated in people's mind (including mine) since I seem to remember that the rationale for developing Mir was that it was easier to bring convergence between devices.
I guess since the team focused on Mir and Unity 8, people assumed the two were linked.
Nice title for a segment though ^^
Breezy Badger was my first taste of Ubuntu! Unfortunately I didn't know what I was doing at the time so I overwrote my XP installation and lost so much important data! My brother hated me for that coz it was a shared desktop, haha. Good old times.
But I really fell in love with 10.04 after my Windows 7 had a problem and failed to boot. Ubuntu brought my laptop back to life via a Live USB
To be honest I loved Unity for its uniqueness and featureset (especially the shortcut display when holding down the super key and the search by alt) and hated Gnome 3 for making the desktop interface a bit weird and extremely limited like making the power button not work like a power button and put the computer to sleep.
I did however find my saving grace with Kubuntu since it worked better than Ubuntu did on my netbook and had a specific netbook mode as well at the time (14.10 I believe). As KDE matured I switched from Kubuntu to KDE neon and I can say that I never looked back.
ubuntu 20.04 is now very stable fast
still can get ubuntu with unity as default discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-unity-remix-20-04/15968
I used ubuntu 9 for the first time ye as a kid
That time my copy of windows 7 was broken so my father installed ubuntu on it and dual booted it
I didn't know what i was doing
and it was really laggy just to play a online game
Not everyone that uyses a computer does so to play games ;) We aren't all children :P
@@gazpitchy ik that was like 2010 or 2011 idk
When I used Linux for the first time, it was with Ubuntu 16.04. The one that had all the bugs. It wasn't a pleasant experience, at least it recognized my Wifi card and was able to install the driver offline. But I kept going because I wanted to prepare myself for not paying for Windows when I get something like a self built PC that I want to save 100€ on. This is why I also kept using Linux even after getting a laptop that came with a Windows licence
Yeah for an LTS 16.04 was not great
Ubuntu 14.04 was the peak. Unity was fully fleshed out in that release and it was great.
I loved Ubuntu and what Ubuntu offered until 10.10 with 10.04 being my long term distro until switching to Mint. It just seemed from 5.04 to 10.10 The Ubuntu desktop was just getting better, better, and better. But Unity was really a step back for me. I never liked the multiple bars and such. Gnome 3 being even worse. But this last release really this month I really seen huge improvements in the interface over all. It doesn't feel so clunky and it looks really good. Maybe we'll see another era? It's just a shame they didn't apply this to an LTS!
They will, for the next LTS :)
@@TheLinuxEXP I am not huge on the Gnome 3 interface, but I was really impressed over all with this last release. Even the default wallpaper looks pretty slick!
I love ubuntu my ubuntu 19.04 in computer no problem work fine
For the first 5 years Ubuntu was amazing. I even switched over from my flip flopping between Red Hat and SUSE. But I saw the writing on the wall in 2010 and stopped using it or recommending it.
I started with Ubuntu 5.10. I think Hardy thru Karmic were the best. I didn't like the change of colors from Lucid onwards. I only used Unity for a couple of months and I switched to gnome-session/ubuntu-gnome until they adopted gnome shell back. Nowadays I'm temped by Arch, maybe I'll switch in the future
I think I started with Linux with Ubuntu 10.04 on recommendation from a friend. Then Ubuntu came with the Unity desktop and I got confused, didn't understand this interface and it was not working well. It made me even switch back to Windows for a while 🙄, until I started investigating further in Linux and found Linux Mint.
The switch to unity was a brutal one !
Ty so much for making this video. :)
Thank you for watching :)
It’s weird watching this video in 2021, when the “most recent” Ubuntu release in this video reached it’s end-of-life over a year ago.
Haha yeah I don’t plan to keep these up to date with every release of Ubuntu :)
@@TheLinuxEXP Didn’t think so.
I still remember my dad using Ubuntu 5.04 for making backups every time he formatted a disk.
9.10 was my all time favorite honestly, I haven't like the other release until disco dingo but snaps still need a lot of work
It.was fantastic. The theme stayed for just 1 release, but Ubuntu One was a great idea at the time, and it was Rock solid. Still in love with the intrepid ibex wallpaper though.
3:16 it was called the one HUNDRED paper cuts project
Ubuntu 9.10 was the first Linux Distro I used. It was on a Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. I was 8 at the time Lol
That's early !
starting using 8.04 when I was just ten years old. Good times
It was awesome
oh 8.04! I wish I had that original CD now.
Yeah it was awesome !
my favorite Linux !
RIP Unity, you are missed dearly
Go to terminal and type “sudo apt-get install unity” and restart and thank me later
I started using Linux as a daily driver with Ubuntu 8.10, I dual booted it with Windows, and hardly ever needed to boot into Windows
Sadly I have been using Windows exclusively since 2014 for video production, wish Adobe would port its creative suite to Linux, then I'd never look back
Ubuntu touch is still developed
You were wrong
Somebody correct this man
God I loved Koala back then. Worked so fine on every machine! My 2 main games WC3 and WoW also ran perfectly fine. Had a Linux only Desktop and Zepto Laptop!
Then came Lynx. Hardware support got worse?? Laptop was half broken after updating... switched back to win7...
Lucid Lynx worked fine for me, but the kernel in these days was kinda wonky
@@TheLinuxEXP Wifi was gone, touch was gone, usb was gone. Needed to get hdd access under win (had dual boot setup) going to save my data and never looked back.
These days I am enjoying Fedora29 on a Thinkpad P1. :)
After an upgrade or a clean install ? Back then upgrades were very unreliable :) Fedora is a great choice though !
The Linux Experiment upgrade, as I did from hardy heron to intrepid ibex to jackalope and koala ^^
Oh yeah, Daisy chaining upgrades like that was possible, but definitely not recommended ^^
2004-2014: Ubuntu - "Linux for all"
2015-now: Ubuntu - "I can' install Debian"
*having window control buttons on the left* -- "YOU'RE JUST COPYNG MAC!!!"
*having window control buttons on the right* -- "YOU'RE JUST COPYING WINDOWS!!!"
*having window control buttons in the middle* -- "YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO BE DIFFERENT FOR THE SAKE OF BEING DIFFERENT!!!"
Haha that sums it up
Compiz effects rules 😎.
10.04/10.10 is my favourite
Wait a sec... Old Ubuntu versions (pre-2010) are still runnable on old PC hardware or using VM software?
My first Ubuntu distro was 10.04 lots 😊
I started out with Dapper Drake, and I have used every one since...running 19.04 as I type. I've make it all the way around the alphabet.
Nice ! I started with 6.06 and had a hiatus from 13.04 or 14.04 til 17.10, but I loved that period !
@@TheLinuxEXP I actually skipped 18.10 because I was so happy with 18.04, but 19.04 really is faster so I'm glad I decided to move to 19.04...and how could someone resist DISCO DINGO! Their best wallpaper to date.
Yeah it's the perfect wallpaper, and the performance is fantastic !
Great video. Subscribed.
I moved away from Ubuntu when they went to Unity, and even now it's still got that crap UI. I'm so glad Xubuntu still exists. I could use Ubuntu MATE, but that seems broken. I switched to Linux Mint (Cinnamon, MATE is broken) as my main distro.
Thanks ! Well, I liked what Unity was trying to do, and I was getting tired with GNOME 2. It never felt totally coherent though. Gnome 3 is the one I use nowadays, but I really enjoyed Cinnamon when I tried it on Mint. MATE and XFCE, I still have to spend more time with.
@@TheLinuxEXP I'm a big fan of the classic old Interface. I find Unity and the latter counterproductive and screen wasting, and just overall really don't like the UI.
What I was really starting to hate was the regular taskbar. Its inefficient, used too much space, and is too small. I like having an autohidden dock and using the keyboard to switch between windows.
@@TheLinuxEXP I'm the opposite. I just want to keep it simple and useable. Heh, maybe that's why I hate the UI of Windows 10? :)
Haha might be :) thankfully, Linux offers enough choice to suit both of our workflows !
Personally, I think Canonical should focus their attention on Wayland development. Xorg is probably the second biggest bottleneck on Linux after the lack luster NVIDIA support. But unlike with NVIDIA drivers, Canonical has the ability to push Wayland closer to the point where it could completely replace Xorg.
Yeah Wayland is not ready right now. I stead of working on Mir for a few years, had they contributes to Wayland, it would probably be in a more usable state !
@RipCityBassWorks I can play Vulkan games on Steam in 4k with decent framerates on my 1080Ti. What is this lack of NVIDIA drivers you are talking about?
@@StarryNightSky587
Maybe it's changed in the last couple of months? I had a GTX 1050 and it never worked properly on Ubuntu or Manjaro. It worked alright on Solus and Linux Mint, but those are not my preferred distos. AMD just has much better support for Linux.
My GTX 1050Ti worked fine on Ubuntu a few months ago :) AMD does have better support though on Linux.
@@RipCityBassWorks still working fine, just get the negativo drivers
By the way, I use Arch
My first Ubuntu was 10.10
I am using Ubuntu 19.04.
Good choice !
my first distro is linux mint cinnamon,but to be honest sometimes i am not feels happy because "mint" is too biased to tell it as similar ui to windows,and from my experience No,its similar to but not similar to modern windows starting from WINDOWS7 its feels more like better version of windows vista,so from my prespective de that looks like traditional windows is :
Xfce/lxqt/de kde 3 : windows xp or windows 2000 or windows 9x or windows classic like ui
chinnamon : better version of WINDOWS vista
kde 4 : windows vista/7 like ui
plasma/kde 5 : better version of windows 10 and modern version of windows 7