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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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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