I applied for them once. Went through multiple rounds of bullshit, to just be turned down without giving me a reason or any feedback. One of the rounds was answering a list of inane questions such as "what would your highschool friends say about you?". Never again.
Like the onion on your belt, those stupid questions were the HR style of the time. No one understood why or what those question were supposed to reveal about the applicant. Just that you needed ask them.
The dangers of letting HR attend conventions..........
One of the most useless coworkers I ever had got a job at Canonical. He also seemed like just the guy to be hyped to take about his high school friends despite being in his late thirties at the time.
He was one of three people I ever knew to actually get fired from that company, and that was only after he just casually stole about 20 thousand dollars of equipment from work. He returned most of it and they agreed to not call the cops just fire him.
Anyway, guess I'm just saying I don't trust their ability to correctly select good employees. Also some of their work is amateur hour.
The main two things they got right:
Debian testing was a better basis for a good balance of current yet workable software.
Making it super easy to install Nvidia drivers, ultimately making then the favored choice of the Nvidia centric ai market.
Their actual technical developments have been underwhelming or actively against what I would want to see.
I have no idea why Canonical moved Ubuntu to rely so heavily on snap, it's wasteful of limited system resources. Removing it sped up both my Ubuntu machines significantly (especially the one with only 4GB of RAM).
Question for Linux people - I have heard issues with dual booting with Windows (IE Windows trying to fuck up the dual boot), but I don't want to give up my ability to play games that might not be compatible with Proton.
Is it less of an issue if I dual boot using an entirely separate drive?
Not an issue that I've heard if you've got seperate drives. It's also far easier to install as you don't need to partition anything. Just choose the new drive during installation and it'll wipe it and setup the filesystem and everything for you.
You can always dual boot and chose boot order in the bios menu. That's a bulletproof method. That can only fail if windows fastboot make it difficult to get to the bios menu.
After reading your post, just use Debian. You need a rock solid, reliable, daily driver and want .deb compatibility. That is Debian. Debian 13 was also just released and it’s excellent.
the reason I'm unsure is because of juggling things like JACK and whatnot conflicts, nvidia drivers and other things like that Ubuntu (or at least, this flavour I want to move to) has a reputation for managing well.
I don't like the fact that they're piggybacking off of the "Rewrite everything in Rust" bandwagon & replacing the copyleft GNU core-utils with a more permissive core-util
55 Comments
Hubi@feddit.org · 126 pts · 355d
A fate worse than death
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 52 pts · 355d
aw snap
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 9 pts · 354d
ewww, snap
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 355d
Worse than getting a Windows 10S installation?
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 353d
About the same really
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 48 pts · 355d
I applied for them once. Went through multiple rounds of bullshit, to just be turned down without giving me a reason or any feedback. One of the rounds was answering a list of inane questions such as "what would your highschool friends say about you?". Never again.
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 354d
Like the onion on your belt, those stupid questions were the HR style of the time. No one understood why or what those question were supposed to reveal about the applicant. Just that you needed ask them.
The dangers of letting HR attend conventions..........
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 349d
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 354d
Why is a package manager doing psychoanalysis on you?
BlessedDog@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 354d
What the fuck?
jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 353d
One of the most useless coworkers I ever had got a job at Canonical. He also seemed like just the guy to be hyped to take about his high school friends despite being in his late thirties at the time.
He was one of three people I ever knew to actually get fired from that company, and that was only after he just casually stole about 20 thousand dollars of equipment from work. He returned most of it and they agreed to not call the cops just fire him.
Anyway, guess I'm just saying I don't trust their ability to correctly select good employees. Also some of their work is amateur hour.
The main two things they got right:
Their actual technical developments have been underwhelming or actively against what I would want to see.
j4k3@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 355d
Snap me daddy
elvith@feddit.org · 17 pts · 355d
tsugu@gregtech.eu · 12 pts · 355d
Would. managed to turn a few apps into snaps, either from source or by repackaging their binaries.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 354d
AUR you kidding me?
Is this some kind of joke I'm too "I use Arch btw" to understand?
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 354d
I'm not into bug chasing. A kink too far
ignotum@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 354d
I never chase bugs, i only create them
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 353d
You won't like Silksong then
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 354d
Who cares, I’m already bloated and dysfunctional.
krunklom@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 355d
A snap package killed my parents when they wouldn't pay $4.99 for it.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 354d
im on mint your threats mean nothing
scytale@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 355d
I was on linkedin last night and saw Canonical is actually hiring and there are a lot of open positions.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 353d
It is a dying company
sirico@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 354d
No my lsblk!
int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 354d
they really did do this to lsblk? too bad I use Artix :)
HouseWolf@pawb.social · 9 pts · 354d
I missed a golden opportunity when I met in person someones Dad who actually did work for Microsoft.
I regret not asking him if his son has ever asked him to get anyone banned from Xbox Live...
COASTER1921@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 353d
I have no idea why Canonical moved Ubuntu to rely so heavily on snap, it's wasteful of limited system resources. Removing it sped up both my Ubuntu machines significantly (especially the one with only 4GB of RAM).
boaratio@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 353d
It's honestly amazing that they haven't abandoned it like they did with Unity, Mir, and Ubuntu Touch.
m33@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 355d
Is your dad actively working against GPL licence too?
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 354d
did you just mark your post as sarcasm in HTML?
m33@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 354d
Yes 😉
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 354d
That's where /s comes from, actually
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 354d
Needs more JPEG.
x0x7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 354d
How about less: https://img.gvid.tv/i/33Gig3oS.png
Maybe I took away too much jpeg.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 355d
Question for Linux people - I have heard issues with dual booting with Windows (IE Windows trying to fuck up the dual boot), but I don't want to give up my ability to play games that might not be compatible with Proton.
Is it less of an issue if I dual boot using an entirely separate drive?
474D@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 355d
Its essentially a non-issue with a separate drive
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 355d
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 354d
Not an issue that I've heard if you've got seperate drives. It's also far easier to install as you don't need to partition anything. Just choose the new drive during installation and it'll wipe it and setup the filesystem and everything for you.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 354d
You can always dual boot and chose boot order in the bios menu. That's a bulletproof method. That can only fail if windows fastboot make it difficult to get to the bios menu.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d
Also makes bitlocker and Tpm secured Luks encryption more straightforward if you don't possibly incur one platforms bootloader before the other.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 5 pts · 354d
No, don't turn me into a snap! AHH-
StechLinux@europe.pub · 5 pts · 354d
I am a flatpak, what does this mean for me?
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 354d
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 354d
Flatpaks bringing their own sandbox to the beach just in case the beach doesn't have sand.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 353d
Horrible horrible Dead
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 355d
If anyone wants to reccomend me to move to something other than ubuntu, please recommend something else to me.
Actual thread with deets : https://lemmy.world/post/35450797
lengau@midwest.social · 2 pts · 354d
Kubuntu.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 353d
That still has snap
lengau@midwest.social · 1 pts · 353d
Snap and KDE. Best of both worlds IMO.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 353d
Linux Mint or Fedora
Maybe Bazzite but I haven't used it
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 354d
After reading your post, just use Debian. You need a rock solid, reliable, daily driver and want .deb compatibility. That is Debian. Debian 13 was also just released and it’s excellent.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 354d
the reason I'm unsure is because of juggling things like JACK and whatnot conflicts, nvidia drivers and other things like that Ubuntu (or at least, this flavour I want to move to) has a reputation for managing well.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 353d
This is terrible advise
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 355d
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 355d
How about now?
MITM0@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 353d
I don't like the fact that they're piggybacking off of the "Rewrite everything in Rust" bandwagon & replacing the copyleft GNU core-utils with a more permissive core-util
srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 353d
Most coreutils are in dire need of a replacement tho.
MITM0@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 353d
Don't you mean upgrading