Nick from "The Linux Experiment" has made an excellent video about the history of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, made by Canonical. He (Nick) takes you on a journey from v4.10 to the present day, a journey that spans an impressive 20 years.
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I've been a bit unsure about when I first became acquainted with Ubuntu. I've come to the conclusion that it was Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. At that time, however, there was still a bit of a gamer nerd in me, so I jumped back to Windows. Ubuntu didn't become my primary desktop OS until Ubuntu 12.04. I clearly lacked excitement, because I like to tinker around in the machine room - you only learn when you can take things apart. And now I actually find proprietary programs a bit boring, because you can't do very deep integrations with other programs.
It was a bit of a shame that Canonical - the creator of Ubuntu - had to abandon their "Convergence" idea. It was quite groundbreaking when it came out - and is very similar to what Apple has achieved in terms of making their devices work together. But the products that Canonical created still live on as the Lomiri and Ubuntu Touch projects. Who knows, maybe in a few years it will be even easier to install a real Linux distribution. If you've been following my old blog, you might remember that I played around with getting Linux to run on an old Samsung phone, with some success.