Ubuntu is Run by "N00bs" (and It Shows)
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GNU/Linux users are not a small niche anymore. The freedom-loving sticklers are. They want more freedom, not necessarily more users. They despise DRM and some of them detest DRM even as a mere option (they'd reject Mozilla Firefox even if EME and slop can be disabled in it). That's typically because they know what DRM truly is and what it does. It is based on reason and the resentment extends to proprietary software to a certain extent.
There are pundits who have long said (for well over a decade, maybe even two decades) that some GNU/Linux users are hostile towards "n00bs", are "elitists", and generally aren't interested in growing adoption (or in "Linux succeeding", where "success" is measured only by number of active users). That's actually a straw man argument and it overlaps the stereotype of "greybeards" (as in, "old" means bad; experienced users are to be ignored).
In the past few years Ubuntu became not an "OS for n00bs", it became an OS "made by n00bs". Just look at the leaders of it; geeks got replaced by mediocre Microsoft addicts and GitHub lovers. These people have no concept of confidentiality, security etc. They're chasing buzzwords and Microsoft's coattails.
For what it's worth, it seems like Alpine Linux has had similar problems, which isn't too shocking; LWN said that Alpine's entire infrastructure was down due to billing issues (not DDoS)... shades of Sirius 'Open Source'. Same thing happened there! Sirius 'Open Source' was destroyed (or self-destructed) as people put in charge were worse than incompetent. Zero understanding of tech, even negative (if that's possible). At least one of them was a friend or ex-colleague of the CEO; she drove out all the talent, who could not stand her. One colleagues told me she was an "idiot" and there was no sense of real leadership, just bullying and cosplaying (in totally improper job roles).
If Canonical is herded by the least competent and barely knowledgeable - those who repeat buzzwords to hide away their imposter syndrome - a lengthy campaign of DDoS won't be its biggest obstacle. █
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