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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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 14 points 11 months ago

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

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, Canonical has been sketchy for a long time. And every now and then they make a move that just reminds me why I stay away from Ubuntu.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months 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.

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