I don't know if this will have a material impact on various articles and videos out there talking about or otherwise covering LM, but I'm very pleased Clem put this in, and I'm also most happy with the wording.clem wrote: We’re excited to get close to the BETA release and to show everybody what we’ve been working on. We’re proud of our achievements and some of the features and improvements which were implemented. We’re delighted to be together and to have fun within the team, working on all of this.
I don't know why, but this made me think of the more halcyon days at Apple when Steve Jobs would talk about genuine new improvements in Aqua and/or Mac OS X. I don't mean this in a bad way, or a negative or sarcastic way. These improvements help workflow and lay the groundwork for future improvements.Nemo: Pinning items
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To the extent to which one can "market" a distro in a good way, this is actually nice to see.
Recently, this forum has had quite the furious discussion about Snap in particular, and container distribution conduits more generally. I'm not looking to revisit that, and I certainly am not looking for this thread to become the target of vitriol from anyone. However, it looks like there has been indeed more to this than probably some of us realized — myself included — and so I'm glad this subject has become the enlightened preoccupation of Clem and his crack team, though of course I wish the circumstances were different.Snap
When snap was announced it was supposed to be a solution, not a problem. ... What we didn’t want it to be was for Canonical to control the distribution of software between distributions and 3rd party editors, to prevent direct distribution from editors, to make it so software worked better in Ubuntu than anywhere else and to make its store a requirement.
If you’re a Fedora user and you want to install Spotify ... Fedora users are told to go to what is essentially a commercial store operated by a RedHat competitor where stats tell them their distribution is only 7th best.
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Since my prior participation in that discussion, I've now installed the flatpak distributions of both GIMP 2.10.x and Audacity. It is great, in my opinion, to have a good means of installing the latest release of a program. Certainly in the case of GIMP, it's a pretty significant upgrade. However, I share Clem's concerns, and think we should as a community talk about this and if we come up with good, useful ideas, we should post them in the blog itself.
