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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Who in the hell thought it was a good idea?

    Marc Shuttleworth

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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