Among other things? They have a restrictive licensing, they’re a for-profit company, and though it’s now disabled by default (maybe, see for profit company bit,) they got into cahoots with Amazon for Spyware
They’ve always skeeved me out with their MS-like approach to UI.
It was a bit weasel-y of debian, but like, I understand branding issues being “important”; the issue with Ubuntu and branding is you can’t do that. You have to get approval to repackage/brand Ubuntu.
For profit companies are solely motivated by profit.
Inevitably they will choose profit over what’s right. In the meantime, there’s nothing wrong per se, but, for example, I don’t trust Canonical to not try and slip unity-lens or whatever it was back in all quiet like.
Or, duck duck go to not quietly expand what it tracks and sells on you. (Mobile browser app caved for Google money,)
Just an interesting thing in the community, how everything canonical does is immediately hate mongered by all relevant Linux media and Red Hat is given free reign
So. Fun story. My dad is a Unix SysOps guy. I grew up on Red Hat. he went out to REHL’s HQ in Raleigh, NC, to get pitched their enterprise services for his org. (they were soliciting bids from several places,). In any case, he came back with, for him, a new hostility towards red hat. (“I regret setting you up with red hat…” lots of other comments that could be described as “fuck them”, he’s far less crude than I am.)
the most hilarious part is the some of the swag was this nasty-ass 1 pound chocolate bar that they made a big deal out of. he put it out at his office and not even the office grazers that would eat 3-week old pizza left in the fridge would touch it.
Only complaint is… FUCK CANONICAL.
Beyond that, heh. Sure.
(Don’t be shy if you don’t mind the learning curve, there’s nothing wrong choosing a distro that meets your needs.)
What’s wrong with Canonical?
Among other things? They have a restrictive licensing, they’re a for-profit company, and though it’s now disabled by default (maybe, see for profit company bit,) they got into cahoots with Amazon for Spyware
They’ve always skeeved me out with their MS-like approach to UI.
Thanks for that link and on the way there reminding me of the Firefox versus Debian conflict over branding :)
It was a bit weasel-y of debian, but like, I understand branding issues being “important”; the issue with Ubuntu and branding is you can’t do that. You have to get approval to repackage/brand Ubuntu.
What’s wrong by a for profit company? Theoretically that is the best option
For profit companies are solely motivated by profit.
Inevitably they will choose profit over what’s right. In the meantime, there’s nothing wrong per se, but, for example, I don’t trust Canonical to not try and slip unity-lens or whatever it was back in all quiet like.
Or, duck duck go to not quietly expand what it tracks and sells on you. (Mobile browser app caved for Google money,)
If you are paying them to to the right thing then they don’t want to lose your money.
There’s always someone with more money willing to pay them to do the wrong thing.
Yeah that is true. In that case jump ship and go elsewhere
There are better options then Canonical.
OpenSUSE is backed by SUSE, and Fedora is backed by Red Hat. SUSE and Red Hat are both for-profit companies, and both are better FOSS citizens.
Agreed although Redhat prohibits you from sharing the source code or else they will terminate your service
Same as IBM, but everyone rushes to suck their dick when they’re not even much useful for the ecosystem anyways
What makes you think I’m fond of IBM? What about IBM being creepy makes Canonical not creepy?
Just an interesting thing in the community, how everything canonical does is immediately hate mongered by all relevant Linux media and Red Hat is given free reign
LOL.
So. Fun story. My dad is a Unix SysOps guy. I grew up on Red Hat. he went out to REHL’s HQ in Raleigh, NC, to get pitched their enterprise services for his org. (they were soliciting bids from several places,). In any case, he came back with, for him, a new hostility towards red hat. (“I regret setting you up with red hat…” lots of other comments that could be described as “fuck them”, he’s far less crude than I am.)
the most hilarious part is the some of the swag was this nasty-ass 1 pound chocolate bar that they made a big deal out of. he put it out at his office and not even the office grazers that would eat 3-week old pizza left in the fridge would touch it.
RH has fallen from grace.
Everyone is a slave to systemd. But they seem to kinda like it, whereas Snaps are just raw garbage.
fuck red hat
Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linuxes.