::: Ubuntu Linux 23.10 desktop re-released :ubuntu:
Malicious user translations have swiftly been removed.
This occurrence will quite surely make Ubuntu even stronger in future - there's much trust in community effort - but nonsense and negativity cannot take place in a Linux OS.
Canonical reacted professionally. Ubuntu is the most popular desktop Linux to this date still. This position is seldom abused.
Just in... #Canonical is looking for #Microservices Engineers at all levels. This role might be for you when you are into #python/#golang and you like to scale things to handle millions of #Ubuntu clients and more.
This role is #remote... only. No offices where you can be called back to.
Ubuntu ISO's have been pulled, Ubuntu 23.10 had installers for the Ukrainian Language, that contained hate speech and obscene messages that no one caught until after initial publication. The ISO's have been withdrawn from all mirrors. All affected ISO's will be recreated and re-uploaded as quickly as possible.
So #Canonical is going full snap with #Ubuntu and I don't know which #Linux distribution is going to replace it for me :(.
Propritary Software I need understands "Linux" as "Ubuntu".
The way I see it, there is not a single package format that is perfect for everything and everyone.
Universal package formats over recent years have helped to significantly increase the amount of available options for the vast majority of #Linux users.
#Snaps in particular are so easy to avoid. Why not just switch away from #Ubuntu, leaving #Canonical to it? I am having zero issues avoiding AUR packages by not using #ArchLinux…
@taoeffect While working at Google, I used #Cinnamon for a few years. It was unambitious but stable and usable. A bit of an evolutionary dead-end though.
At SpaceX, I've been using #XFCE on an ancient Ubuntu LTS. It was also more stable and usable than contemporary versions of #GNOME and #KDE.
Funny how large enterprise #Linux deployments spend time switching to a desktop environment which resembles classic Windows.
Clearly, #RedHat and #Canonical weren't listening to their customers.
@itsfoss btw: #UBUNTU 23.10 #Linux ... is this the one where #Canonical finally drops the whole #snaps idea and stops forcing their shit into our faces with a crowbar ??? I HOPE SO!!!!!! 🤔
@stuartl@thesixdave actually, modern Windows steals from Plasma and yes I am still mad at #Canonical for dropping #Unity because @ubuntu 12.04 looked & felt really nice...
@Linux_Is_Best I would like to see #LMDE become the main branch one day. But I think it's still just their backup plan if #Canonical does enough awkward things to #Ubuntu.
#Linux#Ubuntu#Snap#Canonical: "As I mentioned, there’s around five thousand snaps in the store. Hundreds of them haven’t been touched in years. Some developers have just abandoned their packages.
Of course people move on from projects all the time, and sometimes just drop old software on the floor. That happens. With traditional Linux distribution repositories, there’s a community to maintain those applications. The Debian developers maintain packages in their archive. The Ubuntu “MOTU” maintain their packages. While there’s guard rails on who can promote packages in the archives, anyone can contribute updated packaging to software in the repositories.
That’s not the case for snaps. There’s no guarantee that the packaging information is publicly hosted. The snap could have been built and uploaded from a developer workstation, or from inside a private git repository. If the packaging is updated by an eager community member though, only the publisher can push an update to the stable channel. Nobody at Canonical is going to jump in and nudge a package forward in the snap store. That’s down to the publisher, by design.
If they walk away, packages are effectively orphaned. There’s likely hundreds of orphaned packages in the snap store right now."
Encore une idée de génie chez #Canonical : apporter la prise en charge du chiffrement par TPM dans #Ubuntu, MAIS… ça nécessite Snapd ! Dommage pour les gens ne voulant surtout pas de ça…
#Ubuntu's snaps are LXC's? that's why it's always installed with LXD?
isn't it a betrayal of FLOSS to set up snaps so it's the developers, not the user, who has all the control over how it's installed, upgraded & expanded?
cuz it's sometimes a perms chore to try to make some snaps --or flatpaks for that matter-- work with 3rd party extensions (am thinking of GIMP).
btw, it's no wonder #Docker feels redundant on #Linux. it's a Windows solution for cosplaying LXCs
It's useless like this, and I'm pretty sure that's the whole point.
#Canonical is relegating #Ubuntu Desktop to mere #Opensource fanservice, while they figure out how to offload it all before selling out.
「 They get an ISO marginally smaller in size (which is faster to download) but the OS itself is less useful. To make it useful they need to …download more stuff, which requires more internet (and some Snaps aren’t exactly modest in size) which is… a drawback 」
Arguably, there is no competition here. Flatpak won.
The service alone uses little to no resources. That's good for not only older systems, but generally anyone who wants theirs to be well optimized.
Many developments update their projects via Flatpak ahead of Snap, with Snap being an afterthought. On that note, many of them appear to have abandon Snap
Except for Canonical's Ubuntu, I know of 0 (zero) transactional distros that use Snap, performing Flatpak
If anyone can tell me about a Linux distribution that is a immutable distro, that is not made by Canonical (Ubuntu) and is using Snap, I'd like to learn about it.
To the best of my knowledge, I know of none. I'm pretty sure Flatpak won this sometimes ago.