Just stumbled accross this article and thought it would be of interest to the Community.
Can anyone from the UbuntuMATE advise regarding the team's
awareness of what is being stated, and
planning to complete UM 26.04 ahead of schedule to ensure there is no slippage that could cost UbuntuMATE's chance to shine on the "World Stage" when Canonical tries to make the "big splash" ?
On the desktop, Shuttleworth is aware that desktop Linux fragmentation is a serious problem: "If we want Linux to be a true global alternative, we need to do something that has a lot of heft behind it, and we need not to tear each other down."
I don’t believe that as he sticks with snaps as flatpak has been proven better.
he had good things to say about the American Linux PC company System76 and its new Rust-based COSMIC desktop. In fact, System76 presented a COSMIC session at the Ubuntu Summit.
I haven’t tried the Cosmic desktop and know nothing about rust or any other programming language. My total experience was in 1982 writing two programs for college in either basic or q-basic, one was to average a player’s bowling scores I can’t remember the other one. The teacher said my loop worked but I used to many nano seconds to accomplish the task! LOL
Is it a traditional desktop? If no, not for me. Still Cosmic is only a desktop and can be replaced.
But he also thinks "the open-source community needs to understand that building desktops for people who aren't engineers is different. We need to understand that the 'simple and just works' is also really important."
Totally agree, to much of what I read in Linux articles is about the terminal, advanced users and server applications. Average users need to be able to read about great GUI applications that are user friendly, not how to do everything in the terminal or how to operate a headless server. Keep those capabilities but make people aware you don’t have to be a superuser to use Linux.
Ubuntu Mate’s continuation has always been and continue to be up to a small group of developers keeping it going. Ubuntu Mate has neither Debian’s or Ubuntu’s resources. As long as they want to continue Ubuntu Mate continues.
I wasnt all that impressed with what was said; but that could have been bad editing.
Why say that we need to talk to non-engineers and then talk about how one of the highlights is using Rust-based coreutils so that users have a memory safe-language based ls command in the termimal?
When I hear talk about "Rust", and the claimed better inherent security, I ask myself