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I’ve been away from Linux for a while. So Microsoft is involved here, and Google’s Dart/Flutter is also a key foundational component? Am I understanding that ri
by z5h 5y ago
I’ve been away from Linux for a while. So Microsoft is involved here, and Google’s Dart/Flutter is also a key foundational component? Am I understanding that right?
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoWith any open project, you can lean in favor of only working with other free things, or focusing on usable scenarios even with non-free software. My impression has always been that Ubuntu leans to the latter, trying to provide a working solution out of the box. This is why you can get PCs from enterprise PC vendors like Dell and HP shipped with Ubuntu.
- hn8788 5y agoYeah, I think it's the right call as well for any distro that wants adoption. I'd love to use Debian, but even the "non-free" installer doesn't include drivers for my intel wifi card, and I don't think it's worth my time to try and do it all by hand. I still donate money to Debian though, because I know it's indirectly supporting Ubuntu.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoYeah, I work on a tool for Sandstorm.io called vagrant-spk, which uses Debian inside VMs, and that is pretty pleasant. But every time I've flirted with using a Debian distro for my dev machine under it, I've never gotten to the "installed working machine" stage. For what it's worth, my dev machines are usually random older consumer desktop PCs, solely intended to run Windows, but Ubuntu works fine out of the box on all of them.