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Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere

Posted by BeauHD on from the all-around-us dept.

prisoninmate writes: To celebrate the launch of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, due for release later this month, on April 21, Canonical put together an interesting infographic, showing the world how popular Ubuntu is. From the infographic, it looks like there are over 60 million Ubuntu images launched by Docker users, 14 million Vagrant images of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from HashiCorp, 20 million launches of Ubuntu instances during 2015 in public and private clouds, as well as bare metal, and 2 million new Ubuntu Cloud instances launched in November 2015. Ubuntu is used on the International Space Station, on the servers of popular online services like Netflix, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Dropbox, PayPal, Wikipedia, and Instagram, in Google, Tesla, George Hotz, and Uber cars. It is also employed at Bloomberg, Weta Digital and Walmart, at the Brigham Young University to control the Mars Rover, and it is even behind the largest supercomputer in the world.

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  1. And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Zibodiz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is what irks me about /. Even though Ubuntu is an overall fantastic flavor of Linux, if you read the comments here, you'd get the impression that it's more loathed than a Microsoft product.
    I personally have had very positive experiences with Ubuntu, and have helped quite a few 'non-nerds' start using it on their computers, when Windows and Mac weren't good fits. I own a computer shop, and probably install Ubuntu about once a month -- it's not leading the pack by any means, but it's a very viable option. The simplicity of the distro, along with the fantastic userbase to provide support, have really helped make it the Linux of choice for the average consumer, IMHO.

    1. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by gfxguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I've been a computer programmer professionally for over 20 years - I've been using Ubuntu lately (8 years or so) because it's easy. I don't want to spend my time being a system administrator, I just want to work, and Ubuntu is pretty damn good at that, pathological case anecdotes aside. It's not perfect by any stretch, and I've had my problems, but by and large it's been plug and play.

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      Stupid sexy Flanders.
    2. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Harlequin80 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mint. Mint is brilliant. It will change your life because you will stop noticing that the OS is even there. Everything just works. Cinnamon fits me like a glove, does everything the way that I would want it to. And every time I update to a new release I get the feeling of "wow, nice touch. You have really polished that" not "Oh fuck me, what have you done?!?! WHY? WHERE IS THAT TOOL I USED DAILY?!?!?!?!"

    3. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by Sesostris+III · · Score: 4, Interesting

      When 16.04 comes out I'll be replacing Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) with Ubuntu on my desktop.

      When I first installed LMDE it was a rolling edition, based on Debian Testing. Now it's based on Stable, and frankly has become old. (Currently the screensaver is showing a message on startup telling me it - the screensaver - is old and I ought to upgrade to a newer version!). To be fair, I did initially install the XFCE edition, which is no longer a Mint DE flavour.

      I did think about replacing it with Mint Cinnamon 17.3, but again this is based on Ubuntu 14.04, and so based on something now relatively old. I think I want to get back to something relatively modern, easy to use, and mainstream.

      Unity has apparently improved dramatically. I've tried it with a 15.10 live disk and I'm sure I can live with it. (And I will use the main version rather than one of the other official flavours).

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    4. Re:And yet, the Slashdot opinion... by somenickname · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I was actually a moderator for the Ubuntu forums for the first few years of Ubuntu (I had an @ubuntu.org e-mail address and everything). In those days, Ubuntu had a massive impact on the accessibility of Linux to the average computer user. I could genuinely recommend it to anyone I knew. But, when KDE/Gnome went off the fucking rails and Ubuntu went the direction of Unity, it was almost like a mini dark ages for the Linux desktop. Basically, all the traction, all the trust, all the familiarity was struck down from upon high by people wielding job descriptions like User Experience Engineer.

      Yes, assholes wearing skinny jeans destroyed the Linux desktop. And Canonical didn't help the situation when it started shipping Amazon connected desktop searches. However, having said all that, I decided to try vanilla Ubuntu recently, and, frankly, it's not that bad. It's actually really nice. In fact, I had a moment of terror when I wondered if my drunken ramblings had directly influenced the interface because it mostly worked how I wanted it to work. A power user will need to tweak it a bit but, in general, Unity might fit a power users workflow better than it might seem at first glance.

      Now, that's just desktop stuff. On a server/VM/container/whatever, Ubuntu is the go to flavor. Without hesitation. If you don't use it, people will give you the stink eye and ask you to justify why you didn't. It's easy to use, it works and it's so widely used that when you say "apt-get", no one will give you a funny look. In a sense, Ubuntu started out as Linux for Humans and ended up being Linux for the Cloud. I doubt that Canonical even expected that but, frankly, I'm very much OK with that situation and I wish them the best.

      P.S. I still love you, Debian. You'll always have a place on my laptop.

  2. Meaning like Red Hat? 1-888-733-4281 by raymorris · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those unfamiliar, the previous poster may be referring to Red Hat. They provide ten-year support. Their tech support phone number is 1-888-733-4281 .

    1. Re:Meaning like Red Hat? 1-888-733-4281 by GNious · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft support is much better!
      They have an Indian guy in South Africa call you to tell you when something is wrong on your computer, then guide you through a fix using their downloadable tool, and if that fails, you can pay them to simply fix it for you!

      Did wonders for my Macbook Pro!

  3. Re:MS should buy them out not just partner with th by lucm · · Score: 4, Funny

    > MS should buy them out not just partner with them

    If MS started offering Ubuntu long ago and not just now, they'd be rich by now!

    SQL Server on Linux, and now Bash on Windows... MS-Linux is coming.

    Here's my conspiracy theory: they annoyed everyone with Metro, then Windows 10, just to pave the way for MS-Linux. Brilliant.

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    lucm, indeed.