This will not go well. Their track record with snap has been terrible from the security standpoint. How many times was malware found in the snap store? Not to mention subpar sandboxing that results in file access issues and missing features due to the nature of sandbox. I feel like Ubuntu has enough problems as is, especially with their non-LTS releases.

Ambassadors of unhappy? You mean redditors?

We need to revisit authors of “it totally changed the way I do x” articles after a few months and ask them if they still use these life-changing features.

why everybody is leaving “the thing”

look inside

net profit margin doubles

Well, since I use Linux, Steam is the only platform that cares about my money. The competition chose not to support my system.

Amazing how bad it has gotten just in 2025 alone. We had:

-play integrity api

-changing the monthly security patches into embargoed proprietary blobs

-not releasing device trees for 10 series

-holding back the source code of QPR releases

-the upcoming app installation lockdowns

I guess Pinephone with a 20k mAh powerbank taped to the phone starts looking pretty good…

Battery issues, overheating, green screens, pink lines, dying modems, a lot of bugs and now that. Truly amazing quality control for the Pixel series.

Are they? I’ve had three Pixel phones, all of them second-hand and I always though they are ridiculously cheap when you get one about a year after release. I got my Pixel 8 in december for a little below 300€, still on warranty. I would never pay a full price for a Pixel phone, though. Way too underpowered considering the full price.

Play services and play store are not installed by default. You can choose to install them and they will be sandboxed, but out of the box you get a clean system with no Google apps out of the box.