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Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu (www.theregister.com)

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Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Canonical, leading the charge towards enshittification of Linux. Who would've guessed this 20 years ago?

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago

Red hat has also done some weird things in the past. Guess the Linux community is against corporations.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how long is the Amazon sponsoring ago? Was that 20 years?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Around then. I tried Ubuntu in 2011 maybe, and it opened to this Amazon app being stuck on desktop or something, and so I went back to Windows immediately.

Wasn't till W10 enshitification that I tried Linux again.