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The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils. Why the MIT license? Why not stick to GNU GPL?
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The author raises some good questions about the licensing of the core utils. Why the MIT license? Why not stick to GNU GPL?
Ubuntu being shit for personal users is all but new (Who wants 2 year old software? I want upstream’s latest stable release. Who likes snap?). Ubuntu having higher hardware requirements than other distros is also not new (it’s the reason why I switched away from it over a decade ago). Ubuntu breaking stuff is also not new (big upgrades of ubuntu flavors have always been disrupting for me). Ubuntu shipping new premature things instead of being stable also feels not new to me.
Ubuntu is doing ubuntu things. It’s interesting to see how far it went. The video also has a bit of needless whining though (who cares about the different default for sudo asterisks, just change the setting).
A lot of people. From a snap I maintain:
So not only are some people fine with 2 year old software, they’re choosing to use 4 year old software more often than 6 month old software (granted in this second case, you can argue it’s because Ubuntu promotes the LTS as the main version).
Not to unmask internet anonymity but I’m curious what sort of snap this is since that surely affects the user base and provides some context for these numbers.
But I think you’re probably right. From my experience, people that are not me(arch btw) using linux generally want something stable, not chasing updates or latest releases.
It’s a utility app that is that is available on Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android. It’s a decently popular app and is more likely to be used by regular people than in a business setting.
It’s in the top 50 most popular apps on Flathub.
That they are doing it doesn’t mean they want it this way. Ubuntu calls its half yearly releases unstable (or used to), which scares users off. Upgrading is also hard on ubuntu (compared to arch, where the set of installed packages stays (apart from renaming and similar) the same). And for the software where they need it, the users already use ppas, probably. And then there are the users who almost only use a browser. And there are enterprise users who don’t upgrade because not all of their software works on new ubuntu.
There’s a Linux Discord server I go to for tech support questions when I need to, and they won’t even give you the time of day if you’re not using an LTS release. That alone scared me away from other versions.
Ubuntu 20.04 was the last good version. I wish it still got security updates, because I’d likely use it occasionally if it did.