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    Need to switch to Hanna Montana Linux now (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Why? Because it's working, at least for now.

    Canonical has pulled similar shit for years now. Remember the Amazon search integration? They do it again and again, yet most users stay.

    And I know, someone will comment "but I totally ditched Ubuntu and my one friend did too!!!!", but how is Ubuntu still the most popular distribution? Finding snaps is easier than finding flatpacks or debs or rpms. Finding support is easier, etc. This might be just momentum, but until that is running out, it's working.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    He said Ubuntu 16, I believe the Amazon search fiasco was in 2012. He simply hasn't been using Linux long enough to know that Ubuntu used to be good. His baseline user experience is probably gnome 3.

    So he's comparing extra-shitty Ubuntu to shitty Ubuntu and saying it didn't used to be shitty.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

    I know that amazon search was there also in 16.04 because it was my first distro and in my country i only briefly heard about amazon so it looked cool to me to have one button to order something but i never clicked on it because i tought it only works in rich countries or something. At that time i didnt gave a crap about privacy i was sold on it because i liked the design of unity and the fact that it looks different than school pcs with windows so it didnt remind me school

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Ubuntu actually still had the unity desktop environment when I started using it. And I wasn't happy when they switched to gnome. Thats part of why I stopped using it