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I started using it in late 2004, and have been using it ever since. I see no reason to switch.
As a 20-year user of #ubuntu I find concerning that the page celebrating the 20 years of the OS is full of references to LinkedIn and twitter: what a disconnect between Ubuntu the company and ubuntu the enthusiast user base. The page, the celebration itself even, is then not for non-paying users but for the enterprise-level users that pay. Makes sense, of course โ a company needs to pay its bills โ, but it is nonetheless an upsetting reminder.
While sending dozens upon dozens of bug reports over the years surely doesn't pay the bills, it is also free labour ubuntu got from me. Fair deal, though: I got a free, stable OS out of it, for 20 years, for all our servers, desktops and laptops.
And the "ISV" acronym (independent software vendor) finally explains why the rise of the snap packages, which as a user I don't want anything to do with โ they have consistently brought trouble. Only makes sense, again, from the perspective of an enterprise with bills to pay.
20 years of Canonical Ubuntu | Ubuntu
We're celebrating 2 decades of innovation and charting a course for our future. And we want you to celebrate with us.Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.10, Kubuntu 24.10 and other Linux flavours now officially released gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.10, Kubuntu 24.10 and other Linux flavours now officially released
The day is here. Canonical have announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole), along with various flavours like Kubuntu 24.10 now being available.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ubuntu 24.10 gets a new Snap feature to handle prompting for app permissions gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.10 gets a new Snap feature to handle prompting for app permissions
Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Are you aware that people who use straws are suckers too? And people getting upset because he said that about Windows users?
wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Cola
Canonical bring more Steam Snap improvements, also hiring more Desktop Software Engineers gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/canoโฆ
Canonical bring more Steam Snap improvements, also hiring more Desktop Software Engineers
Canonical developers continue working towards Ubuntu 24.10, the next release of the popular Linux distribution, and thankfully more fixes are coming for the Steam Snap package.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A surprise improvement to see now! ๐ค
news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-โฆ
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Can Now Do What It Should Have Always Done
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is no longer disappointing after this fix!Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
RISC-V Framework Laptop mainboard teased, plus open source releases of laptop shells (and there's a new RISC-V Ubuntu laptop too) gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/riscโฆ
#RISCV #Framework #Ubuntu #OpenSource
RISC-V Framework Laptop mainboard teased, plus open source releases of laptop shells
Some exciting news for hardware enthusiasts, as Framework just announced today that DeepComputing has made the first partner-developed mainboard with RISC-V.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Canonical detail improvements the Steam Snap, work to advance gaming continues on Ubuntu gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/canoโฆ
Canonical detail improvements the Steam Snap, work to advance gaming continues on Ubuntu
Canonical are well into development on Ubuntu 24.10, the next non-LTS version of the popular Linux distribution and things keep improving for gamers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
And here is @Sweetshark ล reaction to this (he was leading The Document Foundation/#LibreOffice that time): extensions.libreoffice.org/en/โฆ
LibreOffice does print on Tuesdays ยป Extensions
Extensions for LibreOffice suiteextensions.libreoffice.org
Ubuntu 24.10 roadmap includes Wayland by default for NVIDIA gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.10 roadmap includes Wayland by default for NVIDIA
It seems 2024 truly is the year of Wayland on the Linux desktop huh? Even Canonical are now planning to have it by default for NVIDIA for Ubuntu 24.10.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available
Another big Linux distribution release is upon us. Ubuntu 24.04 is a new long-term support release from Canonical available today.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released
Canonical is gearing up for the release of the next LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu, with a first Beta now available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/oh-sโฆ
Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming
At last! Users from Ubuntu 24.04 onwards that's scheduled to release on April 25th should hopefully see a smoother Linux gaming experience.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Good News, Everyone!
Canonical has implemented one of my suggestions after the recent crypto scam issue in the Snap Store. This is excellent progress and should be applauded. ๐
forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-reโฆ
Manual review of all new snap name registrations
Over the recent weeks, the Snap Store has been under attack by various publishers attempting to upload malicious crypto-wallet snaps.snapcraft.io
[Blog] Hey! Remember a month ago I mentioned there was a scam BitCoin wallet in the Snap Store. There's another one. This time I took it apart to see how it works.
Edit: It's worse - they published ten scam apps under different wallet brand names. ๐
popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-โฆ
Guess Who's Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!
Previouslyโฆ Back in February, I blogged about a series of scam Bitcoin wallet apps that were published in the Canonical Snap store, including one which netted a scammer $490K of some poor rubeโs coin.Alan Pope (https://popey.com/blog)
Knock knock. Who's there? More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store! gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/knocโฆ
Knock knock. Who's there? More scam apps on Canonical's Snap Store!
No this isn't a joke, sadly. Canonical once again have a problem with scam apps appearing on the Snap Store, which is becoming a repeating problem.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Accidentally opened Steam on my M1 MacBook Air.
Rust (the game, not the language, you nerds) runs on Macs!?
But not on #Linux (I know why).
I wonder how many people play this game on a Mac ๐ค
I used to play it on #Ubuntu quite a lot. Bit of a time-sink. So it's probably for the best that I don't play it anymore. It just baffled me that it's possible to download it. Not that I will, obviously ๐
Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/snapโฆ
Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app
Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve seeing increasing bug reports on Linux due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/valvโฆ
Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
Canonical announced some time ago their Steam Snap which was promoted as stable with Ubuntu 23.04, as they continue to push their own packaging format with Snap but it seems this has been causing problems for Valve.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/crosโฆ
#Linux #Snap #Canonical #Ubuntu
Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages
Well, 2024 should be interesting for Linux packaging! While many distributions use different packaging formats like deb, rpm and others there's also Flatpak for cross-distro support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)