It's just simpler to pick a distribution that matches your choices out of the box, rather than hacking a distro. And I'm talking about Snap in particular.
erwan
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We need to get to a point where smartphone work for more than 5 years. Hardware wise the battery is the only part that is guaranteed to need to be replaced.
Now whether they do it by stopping the race on Android version or supporting every device is up to them.
Desktop OS (Windows or Linux) support any version as long as the PC is powerful enough. Why on phone we're limited not by the capabilities of the CPU but its release date?
I don't think it's wasteful to have both KDE and Gnome. It's healthy competition and as you say, innovation.
However the job of a distribution is to gather upstream software into a meaningful OS, and rewriting everything that should be an upstream software shared with other distributions is a distraction.
So Unity was unnecessary "not invented here" syndrome. Just like Snap is.
Yeah, 20 years ago. That's the problem.
They tried Unity and gave up for Gnome 3 - however they ship a heavily customized Gbome 3.
Now they're trying Snap. How long before they give up and use flatpak like every other distro?
What's the point of this?
I don't hate Ubuntu, and it was my distribution from nearly 20 years. Meaning since it was first released until recently. I loved it for a long time because it was based on dpkg which was much better than rpm at the time AND it was way more user friendly than the others. Even as a software developer I like my distribution to move out of the way to let me focus on using it, not babysitting it.
But I moved away because of Snaps. Currently on Fedora and it's pretty good. I know it's possible to get rid of Snaps or use a derivative but I prefer to stay close to stock for whatever distribution I use.
If Ubuntu works for you and you don't mind snaps, then just use that!
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The article is very long and going in all directions, can I get a tldr of the point the author is trying to make?
Other countries also have been working for years and are not ready yet. Just like Ukraine is not ready.
Yes, it's funny how they don't want to support huffing vent fumes, but at the same time they don't want to say that the device they sell is emitting toxic fumes.
Walking a fine line!
YOU can't own anything, Big Corp however do own a lot 😉
There are millions of families in Tokyo (and other cities too) who don't own a car, and manage to get their groceries without one.
It can be done.
But yeah it usually involves getting groceries more than once a week.
Every distribution is considered bad by at least some Linux users.