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minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·2 months agoThat’s extremely unexpected.
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 months agoThe GNU utils weren’t written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·2 months agoNot to worry, they’ll ship 'em via snap.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoI like snap, send me to camp.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoLol, I don’t hate snap, I also don’t need a sandboxed ls with a 30s startup time.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoMore likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoBecause why? I can expect a very niche distro like Cachy do it but not a big project with a serious market share.
minus-squaretehfishman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoCanonical has a long history of doing wacky shit that nobody asked for though. Unity, upstart, snap, probably other things that I’m not thinking of
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 months agoUnity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome
minus-squareMatriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoUnity at least didn’t break anything, and you still had a choice in choosing desktop environment.
That’s extremely unexpected.
The GNU utils weren’t written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.
Not to worry, they’ll ship 'em via snap.
Straight to jail.
I like snap, send me to camp.
Lol, I don’t hate snap, I also don’t need a sandboxed ls with a 30s startup time.
More likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.
Oh god no
Why?
Because why? I can expect a very niche distro like Cachy do it but not a big project with a serious market share.
Canonical has a long history of doing wacky shit that nobody asked for though. Unity, upstart, snap, probably other things that I’m not thinking of
Unity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome
Unity at least didn’t break anything, and you still had a choice in choosing desktop environment.