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Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)
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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 78 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If only. It’d be a real April fool’s if Canonical announced they were abandoning snap and throwing their supory behind flatpak.

[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Having other 180° turnarounds in mind, e.g. Unity, which was nice on a netbook, or their display server (I don't recall its name), would it be that surprising if this was real news? This makes it a really good April Fool's joke.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Their display server is Mir. They first chose Wayland. Everyone was excited and started putting their weight behind it. Then their NIH syndrome kicked in and they declared Mir, claiming that Wayland has a lot of deficiencies. Wayland devs contested it and explained why their complaints were wrong. But Canonical never bothered to reply. This irked everyone else and they stayed with Wayland. Eventually, Mir failed to achieve its goal and Canonical decided to convert it to just another Wayland compositor.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 7 months ago

Canonical has wasted so much dev time trying to reinvent the wheel, only to go back to using the thing everyone else is using years later.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

Funny you should mention it:

“After the initial resistance, some Linux users have started liking Snap, just as few people got attached to Unity. This is a scary situation for us. From Ubuntu One to Unity and Mir, we have abandoned projects in the past. We can do it again for the greater good.”

Read the article, it’s really fun.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

Apt. Its fucking apt. Always has been. Always will be.