When the Banshee music player added support for buying Amazon Mp3s, when Ubuntu packaged it for their distro, they took the original authors affiliate code out and put in their own.
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exupulosion@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
From what I’m reading only the header doesn’t hold up due to forced snap packages, something else I missed?
boaratio@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Snaps are the big one. I know Pro is free for the average users but imagine if they didn’t put security updates for the universe repos behind that sign up? I understand that they didn’t get those updates before Pro but imagine if they just gave those updates to all users. I still think it is one of the great all time distros. I just think their focus is more on enterprise than on the average user and I am nostalgic for those early days.
brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
They were unbearable the second they started sending every search request to amzn in 2012. The enshitified their OS years before Microsoft.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Uhh
Which Microsoft products have you been using?
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
The snap store not being foss is such a slap in the face. The ads in the terminal (and a few other places) are particularly egregious as well.
I bailed when they did Mir and Upstart. You could literally see their ego affecting their technical decisions, leading up to “Not Invented Here” syndrome, like you see in particularly culty software companies in silicon valley.
Like one poster said, I was an early adopter and felt the warm and cozy ‘Ubuntu’ everywhere in their system. It was visionary and beautiful in it’s simplicity and hopefulness. They sold out.