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Ubuntu Core Desktop Delayed, Won't Be Released in April (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ubuntu Core Desktop will not be released alongside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in April, as originally hoped.

Canonical doesn’t go into details about what specific issues need resolving. One imagines, given that the first Ubuntu Core Desktop release was going to be a preview and not a recommended download, it’s a myriad bugs/difficulties — ones not easily sorted.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Canonical anyway.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Canonical still does more for the Linux desktop than most of us ever have or ever will

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Agreed.

Neverless, fuck Canonical.

[+] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I do. I send in bug reports when I run into one, and try to provide details and context appropriate to the problem. I don't know how to code, so that's about as much as I can do.

Just because Canonical has done something right doesn't mean they are immune to blame for doing something wrong, and they have done some shit.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I believe I did acknowledge that. Doesn't mean they're immune to blame for shit they did wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Increasing analytics over time, that bullshit decision around 2015/6 to give an option to connect all your accounts to your canonical account, and yes snap. And no it's not superior because although the frontend is open-source, the backend is still proprietary; that one fact alone is not a dealbreaker necessarily, but it is problematic and I don't like it.

Now, if the backend were to be made open-source, I would absolutely no problem with snap. I think it is otherwise is a great solution to the problem of fragmentation in the Linux community. But as it is, its increasing adoption is concerning. Closed-source stuff is the antithesis of the foss movement, and the longer it is proprietary the more easily it will be that ill-meaning companies are able to infect the foss landscape with their poison.

You see it as a solution; I see it as a risk.