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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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] 49 points 9 months ago (4 children)

"Canonical announced it was building an all-snap, immutable version of Ubuntu for home users called Ubuntu Core Desktop."

I don't like the sound of this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can only imagine what a call to 'mount' is going to look like.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

There might be a delay

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds exactly like the Snap version of Fedora Silverblue. Which is actually pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If only snap packages weren't utter garbage and the authors actually tested them before pushing them out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

“Test it in production.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, the Microsoft way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sounds like the desktop version of an Iphone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe iOS and Android use immutable filesystems to the extent some Linux distros do, like openSuse Aeon, Fedora Silverblue, Nixos, etc. iOS and Android just make it more difficult to gain root access.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They probably realized snaps are garbage and are still trying to desperately un-garbage them before the release.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

My money is on its not pushing Pro hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can someone suggest a community for linux noob like me? Installed U-Mate yesterday. I may need an active community specifically created for new users.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

This community is full of noobs, feel free to post your questions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The only reason I'm still using Canonical's bullshit after they tried to kill Unity, tried to force Snap on me and put ads in the shell is because of Rudra Saraswat. His Ubuntu Unity flavor is really good once you remove snapd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I guess I have a little while longer to migrate all my servers to a new OS.

Edit: oh this is for home users. Well, it’s only a matter of time before this is rolled out to Ubuntu Server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Canonical anyway.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 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 9 months ago (1 children)

Agreed.

Neverless, fuck Canonical.

[+] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Now you've borned so much executable type. Why can't you release the source code of the software to "make sure there isn't malware" and pledge and unveil it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It was nice while it lasted. Moved to MX.