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TUXEDO Computers is switching the base of TUXEDO OS from Ubuntu to Debian for greater stability and control. (www.tuxedocomputers.com)
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[–] 55 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Probably a good decision in the long run, their rational makes sense. Ubuntu's stubborn insistence on snap is poor decision making on their part.

I run Tuxedo as my daily driver and look forward to the more rolling release focused strategy.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sucks it will take a fresh install, but the whole reason I switched from arch was stability with new feature parity.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    I don't really have an issue with snap personally. The real problem is that their store doesn't integrate with Flatpack properly. So the whole thing just gets clunky

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The snapstore is proprietary that's a no go.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    i can't speak for that.. Or against it (I use fedora anyway). But, I would agree that snap is letting Ubuntu down at the moment, as there is a lot of good in ubuntu too

    From a user side though, that's because the whole ubuntu/snap store thing is just clunky, even if we ignore who controls the store. Gnome Software and discover I find are more usable than Snap store. Cosmic will likely catch up too

    And if you add snap support to the other package software, it becomes a mess

    I will give them credit for trying these things though, and feel bad for them that Mir, bazaar and snap didn't really succeed

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    There's some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won't install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.

    Also the fact that it's proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Mir was canonical's own fault for trying to pull a (blatantly obvious) licensing move where Mir would have been nearly impossible to compete with in a future Ubuntu.

    And that's setting aside the absolutely insane statements canonical's Mir team were making about Wayland at the time.

    When you fumble something so badly that Intel stops supporting your efforts on it in protest, you messed up.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Ubuntu in general I find tends to fixate on one particular thing that not many people are asking for (Unity, Mir, that "convergent phone" thing they were doing for a while, now Snaps) and let everything else stagnate until they get the thing to be almost decent, then they dump it and go chasing after the next shiny object.

    I can see why it would be a bit troublesome to base a distro around. I assume that's why Mint keeps that LMDE version running as well.

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