Question about Ubuntu uses

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:00:20 +0200, Gary Curtin wrote:
>AND, it is generally less troublesome.
            ^^^^^^^^^
            ^^^^^^^^^

The advantage of one proprietary company is, that the operating system
is bound to very expensive hardware from this company, while Linux is
aimed for usage with all kinds of hardware combinations, which comes
with way more pitfalls. Some vendors of special hardware provide only
drivers for the operating systems of two proprietary companies and even
some software isn't available for Linux at all or at best in a very
underdeveloped state. Some very good software for Linux sometimes gets
discontinued from one day to another, just think about the GTK2
disasters. Sometimes upstream migrates to GTK3 or Qt and sometimes they
drop a project.

Yes, sometimes the best choice is an Ubuntu flavour, sometimes it's a
less user-friendly Linux distro or BSD, but sometimes it is a
proprietary operating system.