I have absolutely no idea why Ubuntu is seemingly hated by everyone on lemmy.

It’s Snaps.

I mentioned somewhere else that my reason for using Linux is that, when I have a problem, no one designed that problem to extract money from me.

Snaps feel designed to extract money.

The funny part is, I’ve bought Ubuntu CDs just to support Canonical. I like giving them money.

But Snaps feel like more of the kind of bullshit that I left Windows over, to me.

Snaps redirect some of my software requests from fully free community packages into a partially paid app store. They’re not (yet) ripping me off, they just appear to be getting ready to rip me off.

Seems to work fine, Installation was easy.

Yes. Ubuntu is a fine place to start. It was the first Linux distro that really worked for me.

Eventually, down the line, Snap may cause you some headaches, so we generally recommend Mint, which is effectively Ubuntu without Snap.

The anger is just that Canonical keeps claiming to be an ally while appearing to prepare to rip people off by selling other people’s work that they gave away for free, for a fee.