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minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 day agoThat’s extremely unexpected.
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·1 day agoThe GNU utils weren’t written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·1 day agoNot to worry, they’ll ship 'em via snap.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 hours agoMore likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoI like snap, send me to camp.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoLol, I don’t hate snap, I also don’t need a sandboxed ls with a 30s startup time.
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day 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-up8·1 day 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-squareMatriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoUnity at least didn’t break anything, and you still had a choice in choosing desktop environment.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 day agoUnity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome
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.
More likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.
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.
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 at least didn’t break anything, and you still had a choice in choosing desktop environment.
Unity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome