Linearity@piefed.au to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-214 days agoThe Ubuntu experience:piefed.auimagemessage-square91linkfedilinkarrow-up1723arrow-down133file-text
arrow-up1690arrow-down1imageThe Ubuntu experience:piefed.auLinearity@piefed.au to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-214 days agomessage-square91linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareudon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days 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: