Haven't watched it yet, but yes, absolutely.
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The previous half of that paragraph implied that they wouldn't
Not a perfect solution by any means, but you can block communities you have no interest in.
I somehow doubt they have the same people building online apps and the designing processors.
Now this is what I signed up for.
But also obvious disadvantages to the customer in cases like this. Why should the customer not have a right to refuse?
Had a similar experience with a '13 air. Everything works, except wifi. F'n Broadcom. Don't remember how I got a working driver, but the next time it breaks I'll just try to order some compatible wireless card instead.
Not much that I can think of. I used it until a few years ago, and the experience was pretty good.
It seems that Canonical likes to spend a lot of resources on building projects on their own and put them into Ubuntu, only to discontinue them for another solution after some amount of years.
They're currently pushing hard for their snap packages. It isn't a bad concept per se but their Snap Store server is closed source, with no alternatives repositories so far. There are also other options, like Flatpak, which is more widespread, and fully open.
Tried it, cannot recommend.
You're absolutely correct and I think it looks awesome.