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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's extremely unexpected.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The GNU utils weren't written by Canonical so they were doomed from the start.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not to worry, they'll ship 'em via snap.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I like snap, send me to camp.

Lol, I don't hate snap, I also don't need a sandboxed ls with a 30s startup time.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

More likely they will make them dependent on snap so you can't remove snap without breaking the system.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because why? I can expect a very niche distro like Cachy do it but not a big project with a serious market share.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Canonical has a long history of doing wacky shit that nobody asked for though. Unity, upstart, snap, probably other things that I'm not thinking of

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Unity at least didn't break anything, and you still had a choice in choosing desktop environment.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Unity was great, though. Ubuntu took a hit going back to customized gnome