• Goun@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    6 months ago

    This was where I rage quit. Who in the hell thought it was a good idea?

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      6 months ago

      Same here, it’s the reason why I kicked Ubuntu off my laptop. They removed any way to choose and made it such a pain to get around the Snap bullshit. I’m on Linux because I want to choose what I do with my system.

      • TechNom (nobody)@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        I have serious doubts about that due to the role of early Ubuntu in popularizing desktop Linux. For many including me, Ubuntu was the first taste of GNU/Linux and it was a breath of fresh air compared to the contemporary clumsy and cumbersome distros like Fedora. Only Ubuntu from those days has any resemblance to the experience we expect from desktop Linux today.

        The problems at Canonical seems like a systemic institutional issue, probably related to egotistic management with temper issues. That of course means that Shuttleworth is the source of those personality disorders. But still…

        • woelkchen@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          6 months ago

          I have serious doubts about that due to the role of early Ubuntu in popularizing desktop Linux.

          Ubuntu didn’t move overall Linux market share at all. It just took the “gateway drug” role from Mandrake/Mandriva.

    • odc@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      It is a good idea. Imagine you are completely new to Ubuntu and want to install chromium. You’re gonna search on Google how to do that and you will probably find an old article telling you to use APT. If ‘sudo apt install chromium’ did not work it would be very frustrating.

      • Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        Only reason it wouldn’t work is Canonical killing the .deb package. That was an unforced error. So no, still not a good idea.