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What are your thoughts?

The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils.

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[-] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 5 months ago

The only really bad release so far was 24.04 with introduction of Snaps and installing Snap packages when using apt.

Any release before that was perfectly fine.

[-] khleedril@cyberplace.social 0 points 5 months ago

@ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace The details are faded in my mind now, but the release which brought the Unity UI was pretty derided.

[-] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 5 months ago

There were still alternatives. You still had choice. There was Ubuntu Gnome, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.

Now no matter which one you pick, you get Snaps shoved down your throat.

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