Also: 6 reasons why I've stuck with Ubuntu based Linux distros for the last 20 years Modern Linux distributions don't require users to install applications from source, which is a good thing. Imagine if users still had to jump through those same hoops to get software installed. If that were the case, Linux wouldn't have finally broken the 5% market share barrier recently. Thankfully, Linux distributions now ship with their own built in package managers that handle the complicat
