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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by just_another_person to c/[email protected]

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Overall, probably a positive thing as the improvements made here will flow downstream. I'm actually looking forward to seeing the performance of these new Qualcomm chips in laptops.

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[–] just_another_person 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you better check your timelines on some of your choice solutions then, because Canonical is never first to the punch for "new solutions".

Snap was an alternative to AppImage for enterprise deployments.

Mir was created in response to Wayland not gaining traction and stagnating for years.

Unity was created because GNOME as a whole fragmented and stagnated, then reformed and got their shit together.

...and so on.

Canonical makes moves as any other for profit entity must in order to keep features moving with sales. They rarely make something specifically for the non-corporate end-user, but we do get some benefits from their work when there is traction in the FOSS community. For instance, Landscape is used by massive companies for desktop deployments, but has almost zero practical purpose for any of us reading here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ok, now I have to assume you're trolling.

Look at my comments above, that they're not the first is exactly my point. They re-invent things instead of investing a tenth of the effort in the existing solution and their solutions are worse.

And please don't come with that corporate apologetics. You make it seem like a corporation never makes any errors whatsoever and even the stupidest error isn't just stupidity, but corporate genius we mere mortals just don't understand. That's not the case. Canonical simply is not very good at this.

Yes, maybe they do have some products that do work and are actually better than the competition, but again, actually read my comments and you'll see that I already covered that.

Seriously, are you paid by them?