also this insane hiring process
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Ubuntu was my gateway into Linux, but man I’m glad I ditched it years ago.
Same 💪🏻 (Mint pleb)
Ah, yes, green Ubuntu. Nice.
Linux Mint, maker of ‘Slow XFCE’ aka Cinnamon
Aren’t we switching to Wayland later this year? Not an area of my expertise but I’ve heard about it
Yep, soooon, but really it doesn’t make or break anything for me.
X11 (to me) just means a project already works and there’s nothing to fix.
Tbh, if Mint had a KDE version, I’d use it instantly, no idea why they want to dedicate resources to remaking the same desktop everyone else already makes, but worse.
Mint is a repo with a few packages (including a config file that removes snap, based) for Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s KDE packaging sucks. Source: installed Plasma on Mint once. Surprisingly usable, though. Also, some dependency brings in a fontconfig file that makes all fonts made by google ugly as fuck. Forgot filename but it had a ChromiumOS copyright header, go figure yourself.
Fair. I don’t have big opinions about desktop environments, at least not yet. What gets you so excited about KDE?
Gdm is slow and buggy comparatively, imo. Gnome has always lagged behind on stability and speed for me, and Cinnamon doesn’t do much to fix those issues for its simplicity.
For its simplicity, were I to choose less features and the minimal design Cinnamon goes for, I’d rather just have XFCE instead. Similar look and function, more mature, if older.
This really comes out if you try KDE on a lower-powered system like an ARM phone. KDE-touch is way more grounded and quick than the gnome solutions.
I’m lucky I overbuilt my PC then I guess. Interesting though… Looking at different KDE distros I can see the appeal of Garuda Dr460nized.
It wasn’t my gateway, but I do remember when it started and rapidly became my distro of choice because of it’s focus on a good, easy, well supported desktop. sigh
Nowadays I just use Debian Stable.
Tuxedo OS is based on Ubuntu but they’re doing to make the switch to Debian testing as a base, with extra checks, btrfs with Snapper as default.
This might be my next distro of choice.
Ooh, I knew about the Debian switch but didn’t know about thr btrfs. Currently using SpiralLinux as my daily driver but might have to look into Tuxedo at some point.
Yeah. If they manage it properly and push security updates on time it might be worth it.
Debian for daily driver laptops, mint for your mom’s daily driver laptop, OpenSuSE for desktop gaming, BSD for the servers, and life is good. Real good.
(This is bait, but only a little. :D)
When have any of you given them your private information?
Sorry, I clicked on accept once when I was 12 and now they allowed themselves to steal everyone’s. :/
It was you!
We don’t surveil you, unless we feel like it.
And don’t ask us how often that happens.
What does highschool maths have to do with anything? I assume they alsoo require higher education? Who keeps their highschool grades around for job interviews? This is absolutely bonkers!
Canonical has an incredibly convoluted, daunting hiring process. What’s seen in the screenshot can’t even realistically be considered the tip of the iceberg. Besides fussing over your high school performance (if you don’t claim to be top X% of your class it’s an instant rejection), they also make you do written quizzes and some “psychometric assessment” (pseudo-science BS). After that it’ll be roughly TEN rounds of interviews, the final one being with Mark Shuttleworth himself who may very well be a dick and decide he simply doesn’t like you.
If you’re curious, someone has written down their full experience here: https://www.dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
I once considered applying to them since they have a lot of interesting job postings on LinkedIn, but after reading through these experiences I decided this simply wasn’t worth it.
That was a really interesting rabbit hole. Thank you.
I skip anyone that requests it, it‘s not a good sign to me. It‘s them screening undesirables.
You know when someone says “your X is extremely important to us” it’s always the opposite.
No, it is important to them because it makes them money.
Canonical was good, then the Amazon Affiliate link in the Sidebar happened, after that it only went down hill.
They were trying to be too general purpose but never had good enough enterprise support to make people consider moving from redhat so they tried to get profit from desktop users
The turning point for me was when they started making a Windows-style start menu with web search enabled by default.
How is this a meme?
It has Ubuntu in it
Thank you for helping me form an opinion about Canonical.
“Your private data is extremely important to us, as we make money from it”, how the hell do they manage to be this shady x(((
i wouldn’t use ubuntu because they default to gnome. that’s enough of a red flag.
linux is as much about aesthetics as freedom.
I thnok context is required here. Canonical foes not only make Ubuntu, it makes other things. Maybe they ask for information only for their cloud subscription or something?
Better than default doesn’t mean perfect.
I hate the fact that i like their font so much. After i found out the license was pulled into question and my distro wasn’t packaging it, i switched to something else, but so far nothing really hits the same way for me as a GUI font.
yeah I remember applying to them years ago, it was bad haha
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