Ounapuu, who has been using the Ubuntu GNOME flavour since 2016, expressed his dissatisfaction with the operating system's bi-annual long-term support releases.

“I was really happy with it, both for work and personal computing needs. Estonian ID card software was also officially supported on Ubuntu, which made Ubuntu a good choice for family members,” Ounapuu said.

However, Ounapuu highlighted that these updates consistently broke functionality, ranging from minor interface glitches to catastrophic system failures that rendered computers unresponsive.

His frustration reached a tipping point after multiple problematic upgrades affected family members' computers, including one that left a laptop unusable during an upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. Another incident resulted in broken Firefox shortcuts and duplicate status bar icons after updating Lubuntu 18.04.

Canonical's aggressive push of Snap packages has drawn particular criticism. The forced migration of system components from traditional Debian packages to Snaps led to compatibility issues, broken desktop shortcuts, and government ID card authentication failures.

“In one instance, a Snap-related bug in the GNOME desktop environment severely disrupted workplace productivity, requiring multiple system restarts to resolve,” Ounapuu wrote.

The influencer has since switched to Fedora, praising its implementation of Flatpak as a superior alternative to Snaps.