Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI

Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by senko on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:40AM (#33174724)

Not to mention they snapified stuff like the calculator app: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1039411/how-can-i-replace-sn...

Need to multiply two numbers, it's faster to do on paper than to wait the app to launch.

Thankfully they walked back on that one.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by BLKNSLVR on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:22AM (#33174968)

Early in Win10 days the calculator 'app' was slower to open than it used to be on a Pentium 75 running Windows 95. It was one of the reasons I migrated away from Windows - only to find Ubuntu decided they wanted to follow suit. WTFSMH.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:24AM (#33175903)

Well maybe not slower than anything from the 9x era, but it is definitely slower than it was on Vista for example.

Also e.g. the "Whiteboard" program which replaced the older "Sketchpad" program in Windows 10 tablets. The Sketchpad opened even before I released the button on the pen, while the Whiteboard crap just takes forever to open, then takes forever to "login to Microsoft account", then takes forever to load anything...

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by causi on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:01AM (#33176284)

only to find Ubuntu decided they wanted to follow suit.

The tech industry is absurdly dedicated to chasing trends. As an example, most people have forgotten the reason you probably don't have a headphone jack on your phone is because Apple wanted to shill wireless headphones and the entire industry turned on its heel in response.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by bobsmith432 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:17AM (#33177313)

And this is why I use computers that still run XP

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by nine_k on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:59AM (#33178915)

Say, VirtualBox is usually such a computer for me.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by tannhaeuser on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:21AM (#33175352)

I believe the calculator app as snap was only launched for testing. But yeah, I've left Ubuntu and the Linux desktop altogether over too many crap: the entire point of a Linux distro is to provide a coherent set of dependencies; browsers delivered as snaps are ok for web site testing, but a declaration of bankruptcy of a distro for a component as important as the primary browser; can't even save pages! Add shenanigans such as gnome 3+ and wayland which are for apps after all, but without any new end-user apps developed for over a decade now just serve to make life difficult for the extant desktop app developers on Linux. I'm treating the Linux desktop now as a canned development system with kindof qa'd productivity apps such as Teams needed for customer projects, much like I used Windows VMs many years ago.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by tomcam on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:33AM (#33175989)

Or use bc:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/bc-command-linux-examples/amp/

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by senko on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:01AM (#33176281)

BC is actually super useful when in the shell (less fuss than firing up python shell or similar). I use(d) it a lot, though didn't dig deep into what it can do, beyond setting `scale=2` (set output to two decimal places) when dealing with currencies etc.

If I'm elsewhere in GUI tho, Meta+C (shortcut I have for the calculator app) is faster than firing off terminal, starting bc, then closing it up after oneline calculation.

.. at least, it should be faster ;-)

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by ghoward on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:13PM (#33180011)

Maybe you can change Meta+C to start the terminal with bc already running? ;-)

Disclaimer: bc implementer. I'm biased. I use bc for all of my calculation. And Mac doesn't have my bc.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by tomcam on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:29PM (#33186084)

Celebrity alert! Also, your blog is fascinating.

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Re:Canonical shows ads in the Ubuntu CLI by ghoward on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:39PM (#33186153)

Thank you very much! It's so nice to hear people enjoy it. :)

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