I remember. And how much shit the community flung towards them. And their rep is still stained with it, as it should be.
Ads?! in Ubuntu? Never! They were simply “integrating online scope results into the home lens of the dash” 🤡
(that is an actual quote from the sentence immediately following “We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu” in Mark Shuttleworth’s blog post responding to the entirely predictable backlash after they did this, twelve years ago…)
Oh wait, they removed that? I had no idea because I stopped using Ubuntu when they put ads in the dash.
Doesn’t mean they stopped pushing their own shit in places that they have no business touching. I mean:
>
apt install firefox
> look inside
> snapAnd then there’s Ubuntu Pro. https://feddit.org/comment/2001630
(edit) I just realized that I could’ve expressed the first point using proper English, but my idiot brain immediately chose memes. I think I’m beyond help.
They’re planning on making a version where everything is a snap. Performance and usability may come later, who knows.
I haven’t used Ubuntu in ages but holy shit that’s awful…
