About time.
jonne
joined 1 year ago
If you run a franchise, you have to get the machine from a specific vendor. That vendor makes a killing charging for their techs to come over to fix those machines. There's some videos on YouTube that explain how the scam works.
The DMCA was never about protecting the little guy.
Yeah, moving to the EU to escape regulation doesn't seem like a smart move.
And it's not like deleting will fix it now, it's been copied millions of times now.
Yeah, they look nothing alike side by side.
Other distros were faster with updating packages, or for Ubuntu specifically you had PPAs or repositories maintained by the vendor.
I think that's mostly solved, but yeah, some of the sandbox stuff affected performance.
The issues are twofold: Linux distros historically update software through a package manager. Something that was working fine for everyone, however it was causing a lot of work for maintainers. They got together and designed a packaging format for software that works across all Linux distributions called 'flatpak'. However, Ubuntu decided to create an alternative called Snap, which solves the same problem, except it's not used by anyone else.
Also, there's some implementation details that make it look messy in your system (every application is mounted as it's own filesystem, so if you use tools to list your disk's there's a bunch of weird spammy looking drives and things like that).
Probably can't do that under NAFTA (or whatever Trump renamed it to).
Yeah, I'd rather the distro be as boring as possible while the exciting stuff happens upstream.
There's probably already a bunch of forks people could move to, if needed, people could coalesce around one. That should be a drop-in replacement that the hosting provider could even do for you.