Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.
Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical’s vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.
TL;DR: Canonical doubling down on snaps. Further down the line, if you refuse snaps, audio won’t work since pipewire is to become a snap. He also uses Apple and Play Services as a “good example”.
Sigh. I really was hoping they would’ve learned by now.
Glad I switched to Debian a few years back. Got that hassle out of the way and I see no reason to use Ubuntu.
Been meaning to fully switch to Debian for a while, but I’ve been making due modifying my apt sources to have the apt version of Firefox from the ppa and pin it above the snap version, but I guess at some point I’ll have to bite the bullet and do a reinstall.
Kinda crazy this had been 10 year old Ubuntu installs that I’ve kept going year after year from OS upgrades to hardware upgrades. My server Ubuntu install has transitioned from a Q6600 Intel core 2 duo, to a i7-4770, and would have survived another hardware upgrade I’m going to plan but that’ll probable be when i do my reinstall.
My personal laptop install has gone through 3 different laptops that I’ve just moved over from 1 drive to the next with gparted, from a dell vostro 3550, to a Dell latitude e7450, to a dell latitude 7490, again looking at an upgrade for the laptop too, I’ll probably reinstall with Debian.
If anyone has any new-ish AMD based laptop recommendations that are upgradeable (non-soldered ram, etc) and that don’t break the bank, I’d appreciate it! Apparently dell doesn’t sell any AMD laptops other than 1 outdated model from before 2020 I think.
It doesn’t answer your question directly, but https://linuxpreloaded.com/ has a large list of vendors you could check out.
I feel like the obvious picks from the linux crowd would be a thinkpad or framework. I’m sure there are other great options though
System76
I have a tuxedo computers notebook for work and it’s great. They offer Intel as well as AMD. I also know about Slimbook but never owned one.
Why not vanilla? It is your next Operating System.