• bobo@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    A distro that had such great ideas in the past like including Amazon ads inside the desktop or silently symlinking apt commands to snap have to do a better job to regain community trust, instead they reject efforts like Flatpak or AppImage and build partial closed-source.

    Don’t forget outright selling user data to amazon, the fact that each snap slows down boot times, or the various claims that they’re illegally harvesting user data through Azure Ubuntu images to send promotional material.

    The only community they care about are the micro soft execs…

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      12 hours ago

      Despite being a pretty ardent Linux user for a lot of years, I’ve never heard of “Omarchy.” I just looked it up; without clicking the resultant link, I already saw it describe itself as “beautiful, modern & opinionated.”

      I don’t think I’ll be using it. Or clicking the link.