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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by rbanffy on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:19PM (#24384692)
I'm not a fan of Snap, but I'm surprised something like this font issue passed QA.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by rrdharan on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:32PM (#24385324)
I think you overestimate the amount of QA resources available to the Ubuntu project. Looks like this was an issue that only happened after repeated use and seems somewhat related to individual systems' font configurations?

There's more info here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+...

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by rbanffy on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:41PM (#24387076)
I hope they conduct automated testing with screengrabs for high profile apps such as Chromium (that have something to gain from the snap isolation) and that the test cases have this added.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by jlgaddis on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:03PM (#24403326)
> I think you overestimate the amount of QA resources available to the Ubuntu project.

  s/available to/allocated by/
I don't know that Canonical cares too much about doing QA themselves. It seems like they've decided to delegate that to the userbase.
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