Linearity@piefed.au to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agoThe Ubuntu experience:piefed.auimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1710arrow-down133file-text
arrow-up1677arrow-down1imageThe Ubuntu experience:piefed.auLinearity@piefed.au to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agomessage-square116fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareudon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours ago3 years, so I guess you have caught the Linux virus around that time as well? They have a history of showing ads and sharing user data with amazon: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks Some of the other things they tried are a bit difficult to judge, but I lost my trust and count them as lock-in attempts. These include: snap packages (for real, just move over to flatpak already like everyone else!) mir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(software) Notable good parts that I have not mentioned, but maybe should out of fairness: unity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface) I also think canonical was among the first to try and build some form of Linux mobile OS with some interesting ideas
3 years, so I guess you have caught the Linux virus around that time as well?
They have a history of showing ads and sharing user data with amazon: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks
Some of the other things they tried are a bit difficult to judge, but I lost my trust and count them as lock-in attempts. These include:
Notable good parts that I have not mentioned, but maybe should out of fairness: