Hopefully they get your message, one way or another.

I mean I want to see ai integration in a linux distro. Im just not sure im comefortable with canonical doing it. I kinda see it like graphics with run level. command line, graphical, ai. While I say grphical its more like keyboard to mouse to mic. Essentially I see us having the tools that could bring a star trek like computer interface as the norm.

So far seems to be a pretty solid release!

This seems like a terrible approach to me that will put canonical at an extreme disadvantage.

Software providers that try to do everything themselves have historically failed, a harsh lesson that smart people can still learn without having to make the mistake. Canonical is setting itself up to be a cheap knockoff and get outcompeted by Microsoft who can throw Herculean amounts of compute power and engineering hours at their monstrosity.

A smarter play is to provide extensible software that works with modern protocols to enable integration with AI tools for people who want them, and people who want to focus on developing them. This creates a platform that people want to buy into an support.

Please, canonical, pull your heads out of your asses before it's too late.

I think there's an issue with who does the work and who gets paid. Zorin is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. The vast majority of the work is done by people who contribute their time to Debian. Ubuntu does a significant amount of work on top, especially around security patching. Zorin does less as they use Ubuntu's repos. So if I pay $100 to Zorin, I end up paying people who did the least amount of work for making Zorin OS. Worse, I did not at all improve the sustainability of Zorin, if an important package maintainer in Debian stops donating their time and Ubuntu doesn't pick up the slack, Zorin's in trouble. This is why merely paying for some open source project may not be enough or the right thing. It's also not clear at all who I should pay unless I spend a lot of time looking into it. It's a problem and there may not be a market solution as these large FOSS projects aren't market phenomena. Debian is driven by dynamics much closer to from each according to their ability to each according to their needs than wage-driven labour.

Well I can tell you I get downvoted for mentioning zorin and from comments it would seem it because they have a paid option. The funny thing is I get complaints because the paid option does have a perk (a gui chooser for emulating a osx or choice of several windows versions) and a linux distor should not be doing that but I also get the reverse that the paid perk is a stupid thing that is not worth it and pointless. Granted paying gets support the usual perk. I kinda thought ubuntu had some sort of enterprise thing to get formal support but maybe only suse and redhat did that. So there are definately some folks that get something in their craw if a paid option is present. I will say I hope zorin is passing on at least half of anything it gets to ubuntu who should be passing back to debian who should pass back to kernel development. I mean zorin is really pretty stock ubuntu lts with a bunch of preinstalled software and some gui tweaks so that the computer is pretty good to go right after installation. I guess though most respins are like that. Just prechosen configs and software packaged together.

I don't disagree. All I'm saying is in the current information ocntext your title can be interpreted the opposite way, and many won't read past the title.

If you want to pay, go right ahead.

But Ubuntu is the last distro deserving - what a mess.

I welcome more paid schemes, such as Ubuntu Pro, as I believe it is beneficial for the whole ecosystem.

You should probably add to the post that the context of your title is "I want more people to pay for Linux, even if they don't have to" cause right now it can be interpreted as "Ubuntu now makes you pay for Linux" given the massive amount of disinformation surrounding Canonical and Ubuntu Pro.

...I opted to keep my existing copy of the gdm-smartcard-pkcs11-exclusive configuration file because I don't use a smartcard.

Well there's your first mistake; If you dont use or havent edited, always update it. That's what I learned from Ubuntu upgrades.

Sadly yes. What a wild story. That bloke is a fucking nutter. 😄

Ah, I see that you have already seen the fork.

I'm sure there will be someone in the community that picks up the project and keeps it alive for another decade or more. Let's hope they're not a Nazi or anything 😂.