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Ubuntu Core Desktop will not be released alongside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in April, as originally hoped.

Canonical doesn’t go into details about what specific issues need resolving. One imagines, given that the first Ubuntu Core Desktop release was going to be a preview and not a recommended download, it’s a myriad bugs/difficulties — ones not easily sorted.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sounds like the desktop version of an Iphone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe iOS and Android use immutable filesystems to the extent some Linux distros do, like openSuse Aeon, Fedora Silverblue, Nixos, etc. iOS and Android just make it more difficult to gain root access.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.