Comment on With the release of Ubutnu 26.04, a reminder of what they used to stand for.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I like Ubuntu well enough and I really liked Unity but I’m not installing something, then going in and removing core parts of of the system. If they could ship with things like snap being optional I’d probably use it again
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Unlikely.
Speaking of core parts of the system, I tried upgrading to 26.04 and it uninstalled coreutils to install their rust-based non-GPL version. Broke my system (just a test system, thankfully) so damn hard.
Just for fun I put the effort into recovering the system, had to scp individual binaries (mv, ln, mkdir…) until apt install --fix-broken would finish.
Hopefully they’ve fixed that. Last I saw, their official documentation (a buried blog page) blamed dpkg.
Oh! Their sudo-rs also made it so that Ansible plays failed on it. It’s fair to say “this is not trying to be a complete feature match with sudo”. It’s not fair to push that through when people need those features.
Their response there was also “yeah I don’t care, make the Ansible team fix it on their end”.
To be fair, the Ansible feature is “open an ssh connection and watch for this exact string that indicates that it’s listening for a password”.