also this insane hiring process

          • Super Mega Ultra Edition DX Unleashed 64@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            1 个月前

            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.

            • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              3·
              1 个月前

              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.

              • Super Mega Ultra Edition DX Unleashed 64@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 个月前

                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.

    • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 个月前

      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.

      • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
        4·
        1 个月前

        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.

      • kalpol@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 个月前

        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)

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
    37·
    1 个月前

    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!

    • conny@sopuli.xyz
      37·
      1 个月前

      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.

    • swooper@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 个月前

      I skip anyone that requests it, it‘s not a good sign to me. It‘s them screening undesirables.

  • macniel@feddit.org
    34·
    1 个月前

    Canonical was good, then the Amazon Affiliate link in the Sidebar happened, after that it only went down hill.

    • dudeface@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 个月前

      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

  • Polaris@jlai.lu
    17·
    1 个月前

    “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(((

  • whereitsat@lemmy.zip
    11·
    1 个月前

    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.

  • dragnucs@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 个月前

    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?

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 个月前

    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.