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Canonical's plan to make Ubuntu 26.04 the mainstream Linux desktop

• jamesgill 1y ago
  As a long-time Linux user, I'm okay with this. I used to think Mint was an easier transition for Windows users, but Ubuntu is likely the 'sweet spot' for the general public. Meanwhile, I've mostly moved to Debian.
• al_borland 1y ago
  > he credited Canonical's failed Unity desktop approach for helping the company become more profitable than ever, as the issue forced the business to focus on server, cloud, and IoT offerings. This is quite a way to spin a negative into a positive.
• theothertimcook 1y ago
  Plan all they want, Snap is trash, gnome is painful and for someone who was sused to using one version of windows for a decade updating to a different animal version every year or so is a head fuck.
  • jqpabc123 1y ago
    Backward compatibility is a unique Windows advantage that many Linux promoters underestimate and many of their converts only discover after the fact.
    • theothertimcook 1y ago
      100% I know people still using ME money from 20 years ago
  • breve 1y ago
    So.. use KDE and Flatpak?
    • theothertimcook 1y ago
      This seems to be the way to go. Do you rate/have you tied the KDE Linux distribbaed or arch?
• jqpabc123 1y ago
  Isn't this guy one of the first to declare "the year of Linux on the desktop" back around 1998?