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Ubuntu 21.04 Is Here
- csbartus 5y agoIs it me, or this looks like a covert Microsoft > Ubuntu takeover? Long time Ubuntu user, first time I see release notes mentioning a brand. More exactly, tailored to a brand. I'm a bit worried. I was Microsoft-free for decades, now everything around me (repository, programming language, editor, package manager, operating system??) starts to be Microsoft again. It's perhaps nothing wrong with this. But I guess there is a certain cohort which will never forgive and forget the Microsoft deeds.
- LucidLynx 5y agoSo, because it is an « Open source operating system based on Linux » Ubuntu might just forget every partnerships to make his distribution more « work friendly » for the average consumer? That’s a bit too extremist... You’re still free to not use the Microsoft products integration.
- f6v 5y ago> which will never forgive and forget the Microsoft deeds Which are those?
- csbartus 5y agoEmbrace-Extend-Extinguish
- aritmo 5y agoIt's not a "Microsoft takeover". Whoever wrote the release notes, shows a focus to business users rather than the community.
- tsjq 5y agoMicrosoft now Embracing Ubuntu/Linux. We know their Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.
- jka 5y agoYou might have missed the era during which search queries (and motd messages) in the Ubuntu Desktop environment were forwarded to Amazon.
- caution 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902795 | 287 comments
- sunstone 5y agoI thought I would be going back to Ubuntu with 20.04 but SNAP put me off so I've stayed with Linux Mint. This release looks like it's another step further away from what I prefer.
- indemnity 5y agoI’ve switched to Fedora Core on my Linux machines, from someone who started out on Debian and used Ubuntu since it first came out. I even made a Fedora WSL image for when I’m on Windows. Reasons: Snap, primarily. Also prefer vanilla GNOME.