I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one.
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@zebidijah Idk what exactly they're planning, but the words "agentic workflows" have been said, so I'm expecting the worst.
@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' 🤮
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@bodil @kernelvoid But would that mean #zorin will end up infected witih #aislop?
@crow @bodil yes, I advise you use #archLinux though the installation process and the maintenance is a pain but it's worth it
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@bodil I think so much about canonical asking people about what their ranking was in high school
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@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.
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.
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Just for reference, if this has you finally thinking of getting rid of Ubuntu: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/115889714321160414
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.
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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.
@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.
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@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.
@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.
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@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.
@soph That's probably not the kind of distro I'd want to recommend people install on their Ubuntu laptops, though.
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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.
@bodil I switched to CachyOS in January and I’ve been very happy with it
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@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.
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