"Minimal fuss" has been an Ubuntu strength since the very start. First it was the debian-sanity approach to a desktop that worked just fine.
But LTS really helped keep fuss even lower. I remember buying my first Ubuntu laptop from Dell in disbelief. No fuss, worked for years, no issues.
Right now I gather Ubuntu has a lot of commerical runway and partnership to leverage. Community runway is going to be shorter but there are still (as I understand it) workarounds for just about every significant issue people have with the distro.
What's concerning is that workarounds are essentially the same thing as fuss, for a lot of users out there.
But LTS really helped keep fuss even lower. I remember buying my first Ubuntu laptop from Dell in disbelief. No fuss, worked for years, no issues.
Right now I gather Ubuntu has a lot of commerical runway and partnership to leverage. Community runway is going to be shorter but there are still (as I understand it) workarounds for just about every significant issue people have with the distro.
What's concerning is that workarounds are essentially the same thing as fuss, for a lot of users out there.