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minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoThat’s extremely unexpected.
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 year agoThe GNU utils weren’t written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·1 year agoNot to worry, they’ll ship 'em via snap.
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoI like snap, send me to camp.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoLol, I don’t hate snap, I also don’t need a sandboxed ls with a 30s startup time.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoMore likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.
minus-squareGolfNovemberUniform@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year 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-up12·1 year 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-down2·1 year agoUnity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome
minus-squareMatriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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.
Oh god no
More likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can’t remove snap without breaking the system.
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.