> I hope you know that on the way forward, Firefox will be snap-shimmed too.
I see, so we're angry about things that haven't happened yet. TIL the OSS community has precogs and this is Minority Report!
Look, I get that two whole packages out of literally tens of thousands did this (I've seen lxd and chromium mentioned). But why don't we convict Canonical after they commit their crimes, eh?
Surely if it's on the roadmap then better to address it now and potentially avoid it rather than dig in deeper until sunk-cost fallacy suggests there's no way back?
How are there greater sunk costs related to switching distros later instead of now if Ubuntu starts actually misbehaving in a significant way?
I grant you, if you haven't picked a distro yet and this whole thing bothers you, by all means, pick something else! That's the beauty of the Linux world!
But if you're already in the ecosystem (and I have to assume most people complaining are... Otherwise why waste energy complaining about the actions of a company that doesn't affect you) I don't see how the sunk costs fallacy applies here.
It's sadly not as easy as you make it sound. I was recommended to use Ubuntu for my work laptop because the IT team couldn't guarantee support if you used another distro. I know my way around and particularly love Manjaro (and worked with Debian and SUSE and Mint) but the company uses proprietary VPN and a spy/monitoring agent and I wasn't sure I'll be able to make those work on a non-Ubuntu machine.
So yes, there could be huge sunk costs. After fighting with this work laptop for a full work day to get every single step of the onboarding completed, I am not looking forward to doing it again -- even less so if the proprietary and mandatory programs that I have to install can't be guaranteed to work on anything outside Ubuntu.
I see, so we're angry about things that haven't happened yet. TIL the OSS community has precogs and this is Minority Report!
Look, I get that two whole packages out of literally tens of thousands did this (I've seen lxd and chromium mentioned). But why don't we convict Canonical after they commit their crimes, eh?