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by FirmwareBurner 958 days ago
Are you me? I started a job mid of last year and got a laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 and it was a shitshow, especially due to Snaps and wayland.

Imagine this, you install Firefox Snap, you install the Firefox Keypass extension, then you install the Keypass Snap, then you discover they don't work together because of the Snap containerization isolation. So you uninstall all that and start installing apt packages via the command line. And then screen sharing didn't work thanks to Wayland. Then I turned off Wayland but then I got screen tearing and lost touchpad gestures. Nice.

And Ubuntu is supposed to be THE Linux distro. The flasghip. The crown jewel. How are you supposed to be the Windows killer when basic stuff that works out of the box on Windows is horribly broken?

Yeah Snaps and Wayland sounded like a good idea in theory, but not when they break so much useful apps and functionality that we take for granted and need for work.

Does the Ubuntu dev team not dog-food their own product that they release such a broken mess? Or do they use it in a different way than us non Linux-dev plebs?
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rightbyte 958 days ago
I guess Ubuntu devs use Debian or something. There is no way a Linux distro dev who can configure Debian in his sleep would put up with all this BS. Even if Ubuntu is enforced internally you should be able to de-Canonicalize it almost completely.

Or maybe the Canonical employees have remove-bs.sh script they keep up to date internally?

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