After experiencing Canonical's recruitment process, which they claim to be extremely proud of, I can only imagine that if the other departments operate with a similar mindset the entire company is a non-sensical hell.
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Isn't this GUI how you manage your Nvidia drivers? Pretty big hit to accessibility if they take that away
It's corporate parasite for corporate parasites.
In and of itself as such, it's not a bad thing but if you're a person, don't touch it. You should easily see why.
Mir came about because the people behind Wayland were fucking around for years without making progress. Now that Wayland has actually matured, Mir is a Wayland compositor.
Snaps predate (and do a whole lot more than) flatpak.
1 out of 3 isn't great.
Canonical employees have been part of making Wayland since before Mir existed. Mir came about because Canonical wanted to have something that actually worked within a reasonable amount of time. The result? A bunch of places where groups with lots of resources will contribute to Linux (such as automotive systems) use Mir because it was actually practical to use within a reasonable timeframe. A lot of the recent progress in Wayland has come because the people who were holding it up for years finally gave up and listened to the practical concerns from experts who work at places like Canonical and Nvidia.
And snaps still do things that Flatpaks don't, such as being able to package a kernel and system services. So even if Canonical wanted to switch to flatpak, they couldn't. Not without making changes that are fundamentally contrary to the design of flatpak.
I didn't mention the Unity thing because while I don't agree with your assertions, I do think it's an example of how someone at Canonical's hate for KDE has prevented them from making the same good decision at least 3 times.
If you want to pretend it's Canonical vs. nonprofits, you're going to have an ugly surprise when you find out which corporation hired most of the people who held up Wayland for so long and has its tentacles so deeply in Flatpaks. (HINT: it's not SuSE)
If they want to modernize or simplify the tool, fine.
What really bothers me is removing the current tool before you have a replacement ready. Worst tech trend ever!
Time for someone to make Updatebuntu spin to add it back
Am I the only Ubuntu user who actively avoids the GUI and only uses the command line for updates?
At this point I'm starting to wonder if Canonical is in the Epstein files.
They are not entirely wrong for not trusting them though. I have broken more than one Ubuntu installs... and I consider myself a semi-advanced user.
If more windows people join and Ubuntu wants to keep them, they need protection from doing stupid things like uninstalling all display and graphics drivers or system critical packages...
Don't underestimate people's stupidity, at least that something that Microsoft and apple get right.
@cm0002 Meh, every distro has its issues, and I don't think the arguments for its removal are insane, although I would prefer it was kept and fixed. I think the only thing I've ever tweaked on that thing are the security and version update settings. Wonder what #ubuntu will set the defaults to.
I was thinking about it recently. For Linux to compete with Windows in corporate settings it has to offer some very specific functionalities. It has to basically be remotely managed. At one of my previous companies Mac users were not able to use AirDrop or even change the desktop background and screen saver. Linux users still had root level access and could do whatever they wanted because the company didn't have tools to manage Linux desktops. If Canonical is trying to get corporate clients (and I think they are) then yes, they absolutely need to treat their users as if they can't be trusted. That's because corporations don't trust their employees. And it's perfectly fine, just don't use Ubuntu as a personal distro.
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