The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are. And Canonical has only tested this in one cycle, 25.10, before introducing it in an LTS. Would’ve made more sense to wait until 26.10.

Other find problem with it being MIT licensed.

I had a couple of problems with the profile manager.

For one, there’s now two profile managers that do not work together. You can’t use an old profile in the new profile manager or vice versa. You can access the old one via .desktop entry or from the CLI. But you can’t access the new one from the CLI.

It’s also a bit buggy. For example, if I have my “Personal” profile open and middle click the Firefox icon, it will open up another “Personal” window rather than show the profile manager. And to access the new profile manager, I first have to aim for a tiny target (especially tiny on my 100% scaled 4K monitor) and do 3 clicks. With my solution, I explicitly choose which profile to use from my dock.

It’s also hit or miss on which window a link from an app will open up in. Whereas with my solution, I can set “Firefox (Personal)” as my default browser and always have stuff open there.

I don’t use openSUSE, but seeing their security reviews tempts me…

It could be improved. Sebastian Wick and Lennart Poettering made comments on how hard POSIX makes it hard to be secure. There are better APIs that try to be safer.

• https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
• https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116459585811044061

And since uutils is not Linux only, it can’t use these safer APIs directly, or at least not without writing more platform-specific code.

Technically, Ubuntu is behind the curve not at the forefront on this. Universal Blue already includes quite a bit of AI stuff and Fedora has had drafted plans for a while.

Universal Blue: https://hachyderm.io/@jorge/116476967711636491

This is not a proposal to stop using SVG, it’s just a fun re-imagination of Gnome if we all still used low resolution CRT displays.