Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. Maturity is boring (Opinion)

Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri

Last week, He was released Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri, the second of the two annual releases to which we are accustomed. My question when testing it was for what?. I was never too interested in the controversy between those who defend maintaining the current system of two releases per year, and those who suggest moving to a continuous update scheme (Rolling Release) I install so many programs from so many different sources that every two months or so I have to do an installation from scratch. However, I am leaning more and more for the second position.

After selling his computer security company for a fortune and before founding Canonical, Mark Shuttlewort spent a vacation on the International Space Station. He was the second civilian to do so. That adventurous spirit was the one that guided the early years of the distribution. Ubuntu was much more than an easy-to-install Debian. He tried new things, they could go well or badly, but they were worth talking about.

Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. Nothing new to show

No one can deny that Canonical made efforts to live off the home user market. He tried to produce a converged device through crowdfunding, launched an app store that developers could earn money from. But, not everyone was convinced that they loved the home user. While from the official page they invited users to ask their questions on AskUbuntu, report bugs on Launchpad and make suggestions on the mailing list for developer and user exchanges, the moderators of those sites dropped the questions and closed the reports of errors under formal excuse and, they answered in a bad way to those who dared to propose something that would challenge the worldview of their majesties the developers of the community.

When it decided to launch Unity and enter the converged device market, Canonical launched an integrated development environment. It never worked well, the documentation was incomplete and, in AskUbuntu, which was where the documentation sent you, to solve problems, they answered that such questions were not appropriate to ask there.

As a result, Ubuntu ended up ditching mobile devices and smart TVs. However, almost by chance he discovered the corporate market. And, he put all his innovative capacity there.

And, that is the big problem that I see in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. That contributes absolutely nothing. The news that may be, are all or GNOME or the Linux kernel. Even the desktop stopped looking like Unity to take on the look of any other GNOME-based distro.

Notice the word (Opinion) of the title. There is actually nothing wrong with the layout itself. Although I cannot make an exact comparison because I changed computers between 21.04 and 21.10, Impish Indri is clearly stable, installs quickly, and runs smoothly. Undoubtedly, everything that conservative users in the corporate market can expect from a desktop operating system. Including the gray background public distribution of the application menu.

Like those left-wing militants who previously did not miss a protest, and now limit themselves to tweeting from their iPhone against the blockade of Cuba while having a latte at Starbucks, Ubuntu maintains a gesture of rebellion. Firefox is now installed as a Snap package. The truth is that it does not change much, except perhaps that it is easier to get rid of.

We had been promised a new installer based on Flutter, and, although it is not ready, it can be tested in the version Live Canary. The truth is that it will not contribute absolutely anything and, it would be better if they adopted Calamares like Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio

If there is a connection between the Ubuntu news and the innovative spirit of Mark Shuttleworth, then there is no doubt that now you should be spending your vacation on excursions to hot springs with contingents of retirees. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Simply that I was bored with Ubuntu which I see as a Fedora with Snap packages.

Honestly, the two annual versions are no longer justified.

Luckily, Linux has many other options to choose from. Community versions keep doing cool things. And there are always LinuxMint, Manjaro or Deepin.


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  1.   Daniel said

    How you decide, your opinion, whoever needs something stable and works with the pc, thinks completely the opposite, my Ubuntu installation takes more than 3 years and to install the system every 2 months I stay with Windows.

    1.    O'Connell said

      True, it is the good thing about Linux. Everyone is free to use it and reinstall it as many times as they want, although I don't quite understand that every two months I have to reinstall the OS. The good thing about linux is that you can keep it updated without having to restart except for the kernel. Although I had my Ubuntu moment in the beginning, I remember that I installed a lot of applications and there they were for a year. Minimum. But I'm Fedorian, and the truth is that with the default package, plus the gnome apps, now I just limit myself to installing the Nvidia drivers, the multimedia codecs, a couple of older applications, and that's it. With the integration of Gnome online accounts, I associate my gnome account and that's it. It takes me five or ten minutes. to have everything prepared, and to wait for the support of that specific Fedora to end. And then I install the new version.

    2.    Manuel said

      I don't know if you've used Windows recently (let's say in the last 10 years) but I haven't reinstalled Windows in ages. Since the PC I bought in 2007 with W Vista, I have never had to reinstall. Going through different versions (jump from 7 to 10 for example). I don't know, to defend Linux, it is not necessary to falsely attack Windows, Linux has many strengths of its own. Windows has its drawbacks, but stability is no longer one of them, for a long time.

  2.   Eduardo said

    Ubuntu I do not use it because it is the prettiest or with the best features. It has some of the best hardware support out of the box, and the packaging system is the most robust. The only problem I have is when every two years I have to migrate from lst. I use it at work, and I don't need that when I have a deadline, the pc tells me «Redmond had the balls to see how your experience changes, go and make yourself a coffee that there are 153 updates with several reboots and let's go to see if your pc still turns on ».
    I like the philosophy of ubuntu? No, I prefer debian's, but he's a bard. I am a full stack developer, and I need to use chrome and various copyrighted programs.

  3.   Celio said

    Well, respectable each comment, the experiences with one or another system may vary, in the end each one stays with the one that satisfies him, and I have lived happily with Ubuntu for a long time, I have what I need, at the speed that does not despair me and well with the updates or versions every 6 months I contribute to the product becoming better and better,