<![CDATA[I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one.]]>RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116476120066302561

I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/b6242706-9ca9-490c-9f3e-52e36f70d836/i-ve-been-warning-people-about-canonical-and-their-bad-decisions-for-over-a-decade-and-even-i-didn-t-expect-this-one.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 10:20:38 GMTMon, 27 Apr 2026 10:12:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:19:06 GMT]]>@soph @bodil this is why I didn’t give Aurora a spin.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://narrativ.es/users/janl/statuses/116477810895134343https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://narrativ.es/users/janl/statuses/116477810895134343Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:19:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:18:56 GMT]]>@bodil I switched to CachyOS in January and I’ve been very happy with it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://girlcock.club/users/anathema/statuses/116477810206885502https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://girlcock.club/users/anathema/statuses/116477810206885502Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:18:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:12:42 GMT]]>@soph That's probably not the kind of distro I'd want to recommend people install on their Ubuntu laptops, though.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477785685533825https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477785685533825Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:12:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:08:59 GMT]]>@bodil possibly, though I tend to think not in overall numbers, but in groups of users. I know a lot of devs with mac machines because they're efficient for builds. An intel/amd-only distro is going to perform far slower as a VM on a mac than a ARM64 distro would, for example.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grrl.me/users/soph/statuses/116477771062567852https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grrl.me/users/soph/statuses/116477771062567852Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:08:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:02:10 GMT]]>@soph I can't agree, ARM isn't really statistically significant for distro makers below a certain scale. I'm told Fedora baseline has good ARM support.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477744266829005https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477744266829005Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:02:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:51:39 GMT]]>@bodil

Sigh. Wish I could say I was surprised, but they've been going the wrong way for a while now.

I took a look at Aurora, but unfortunately I don't see an easy way to get an ISO for ARM64. In 2026, that feels like a nonstarter for any serious distro.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grrl.me/users/soph/statuses/116477702947086977https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grrl.me/users/soph/statuses/116477702947086977Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:51:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:05:26 GMT]]>@bodil @VANTABlack2000

When Ubuntu made the bad decision to look like a phone everywhere with Unity, Mint went the opposite direction. So maybe Mint has more sense.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Phosphenes/statuses/116477521168146445https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Phosphenes/statuses/116477521168146445Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:05:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:42:26 GMT]]>@raphael @bodil And the “Please write an essay why you like Shuttleworth. This is not a cult. Promise!” part of the application process.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/schrotthaufen/statuses/116477430739395408https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/schrotthaufen/statuses/116477430739395408Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:42:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:13:04 GMT]]>@crow @bodil yes, I advise you use though the installation process and the maintenance is a pain but it's worth it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116458744303539905/statuses/116477315281866926https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116458744303539905/statuses/116477315281866926Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:13:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:06:49 GMT]]>@bodil same.... i feel like it's probably going to be a direct partnership with either openAI or Anthropic

with lots of loud and splashy announcements to maximize 'shareholder value' 🤮

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116285738585131106/statuses/116477290711937807https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116285738585131106/statuses/116477290711937807Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:06:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:59:46 GMT]]>@bodil I wasn't really thinking about Canonical, but this makes perfect sense. They've always struggled to build any community around their development (mostly because of their CLA), the name "Canonical" has always been an ironic joke, so they've never had the resources to generate code to match their ambition, but with LLM-based statistical code generation they *do*. They have a sycophantic agent to replace the community they could never have and can generate a castle of ambition built out of all the low-quality code they want.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/raven667/statuses/116477262990622762https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/raven667/statuses/116477262990622762Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:59:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:59:26 GMT]]>@crow @bodil

'what distro should i....' stop. the answer is always Mint. if you are not sure which distro is for you, then mint is the distro for you. in the context of this conversation, LMDE (Debian edition)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116285738585131106/statuses/116477261653182058https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116285738585131106/statuses/116477261653182058Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:59:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:58:58 GMT]]>@zebidijah Idk what exactly they're planning, but the words "agentic workflows" have been said, so I'm expecting the worst.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477259852058027https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477259852058027Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:58:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:57:29 GMT]]>@bodil this could legitimately be awesome!

.....but it won't. because it's canonical....

if they shipped an optional expanded version, that included small local llm (like 2b or 4b-ish sized) trained only and exclusively help you troubleshoot and script, that would be awesome!
i don't need it to write me a workout routine or draw me a stupid picture, i need it to show me im a fucking idiot who expected 'ip' command to behave the same was as the 'ls' does in terms of syntax

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116285738585131106/statuses/116477253986602954https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116285738585131106/statuses/116477253986602954Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:57:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:57:18 GMT]]>@VANTABlack2000 I wouldn't expect something like Mint, which is already pretty far removed from Ubuntu's default setup, to automatically adopt Ubuntu's worse choices in this case, but I don't know the specifics of what Canonical is planning to ship, so I can't say for sure.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477253281360133https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477253281360133Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:57:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:53:27 GMT]]>@bodil

to use a simpsons-ism, 'Why now? Why not years ago?'

To be clear, fuck AI and all this stuff, but if you ARE going to weirdly sell out and do shitty things, why wait till the sentiment is FIRMLY against it? Like 2 years ago there was probably a window where people would have been 'okay I guess' as an optional feature.

Now, fortunatley, basically everyone is on team 'HELL NO', so...just seems a baffling choice!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.group/users/Oggie/statuses/116477238124997718https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.group/users/Oggie/statuses/116477238124997718Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:53:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:24 GMT]]>@crow @bodil was the easiest transition for me when I moved away from Ubuntu. Aside from dealing with Debian's old-school installer (depending on the installation method you choose) and having to add a couple of Gnome Shell extensions, you'll hardly notice a difference in day to day use.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/OldFartPhil/statuses/116477233988420112https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/OldFartPhil/statuses/116477233988420112Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:02 GMT]]>@bodil What does this mean for distros built on Ubuntu like Mint? Will they have AI features too or will that be up to the distro?

I am currently using Mint and I REALLY don't want to use an operating system that is going to start adding AI features. At the very least with Linux I would hope it is easy to disable at least.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/VANTABlack2000/statuses/116477232577148444https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/VANTABlack2000/statuses/116477232577148444Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:48:07 GMT]]>@bodil @kernelvoid But would that mean will end up infected witih ?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cville.online/users/crow/statuses/116477217162083106https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cville.online/users/crow/statuses/116477217162083106Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:48:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:44:30 GMT]]>@bodil AI in Linux.WTF????

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DekaBlack/statuses/116477202943680254https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DekaBlack/statuses/116477202943680254Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:44:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:43:47 GMT]]>@tragivictoria @crow That's precisely the line Ubuntu crossed, and I'm not recommending Arch to novices, so Fedora it is.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477200148143694https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/bodil/statuses/116477200148143694Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:43:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:41:59 GMT]]>@crow @bodil Fedora, specifically Silverblue (gnome) or Kinoite (kde). They're immutable which means you can't (easily) break the OS and it's versioned so if an update happens to break something it's fairly easy to roll back.

However, if you want to be open to tinkering and learning how your system works regular old Fedora is the way to go.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Tekchip/statuses/116477193035882322https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Tekchip/statuses/116477193035882322Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:41:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:39:23 GMT]]>@bodil@treehouse.systems @crow@cville.online Fedora is a slop jankfest. The only thing they do good is that they can read the room and not push it to default installations.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/ap/users/115437022933800913/statuses/116477182863270859https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/ap/users/115437022933800913/statuses/116477182863270859Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:39:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:38:56 GMT]]>@bodil Dito. After some bad experiences regarding "legacy hardware support", I decided that Ubuntu could not be relied upon.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/ruoff/statuses/116477181050328976https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://norden.social/users/ruoff/statuses/116477181050328976Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:38:56 GMT