[jacquesm]

> What problem is Ubuntu trying to solve?

They're trying for lock-in and failing.

Linux networking has been a solved problem since just about forever, and all this instability will do is cause people to abandon Ubuntu in favor of something less fickle.

[cvccvroomvroom]

It would be more useful for the various major distros to pitch in for easy, simple, congruent CLI, UI, declarative, and API configuration management for common advanced configuration.

Creating artificial lock-in that doesn't work is a double-barrel footgun blast.

The Ubuntu people are like the SystemD people: they just want to reinvent things from scratch and shove it down everyone's throats without any consideration.

[jacquesm]

Lock-in is the anti-thesis of open source, the two should simply never be seen together.

[olavgg]

This, I really don't understand that they want to create a diverging solution for something that already works really well. We don't need 15 different solutions to configure networking.

Imagine looking for a Java solution and the only response you find is in Kotlin... fucking annoying as I have to learn Kotlin to convert it to Java... The same thing with network configuration, you're looking for something that works on Debian and you only find a Ubuntu solution....