• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I can’t believe people construed the lack of this feature in a brand new software as bad Canonical want to kill deb! It’s a brand new software. Features need work. Either go and write them or wait for someone else to do it.

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      I can’t believe people construed the lack of this feature in a brand new software as bad Canonical want to kill deb!

      Most loud mouth open source enthusiasts are often toxic entitled choosing beggars. If any of their desires are not met, the project is dying or dead even though the statistics say otherwise.

      Fork it and fix things you want to make it better?

      No way bro. I want someone else to work on the feature I requested one year ago.

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      They removed installing another package that did this by default in the same version where they introduced the App Center. Ubuntu Software never handled installing third-party debs, gdebi did. And in the version where they introduced the App Center, they stopped bundling gdebi by default.

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      5 months ago

      That would definitely be valid for a smaller community supported distro like mint, but canonical is a big company that already has kind of a bad reputation for things like that so I think it was reasonable for people to complain

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        A big company eh? They’re about 20 times smaller than Red Hat. They very much depend on Debian and the larger FOSS community to get their OS built.

        I’ve been on this train since 2004 and I’ve been paying attention. Not all but a lot of the flak they’ve been getting over the years has been based on misinformation and ignorance. But trying to get things objective and correct doesn’t make for a good flame war.