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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by pjmlp on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:39AM (#35600537)
They surely do, its reason to fame is being the best distribution supporting OEM devices without religion regarding open source drivers.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by carlhjerpe on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:18AM (#35601061)
They're using a package manager that a lot of people are comfortable with, they give away their packages without subscriptions and they work with some OEMs.

But in reality, the hardware support is in the kernel, so any distro with a more up2date kernel would fare at least as good. As for the software Canonical produces, I'm not great friends with anything. Snap is crap, Netplan is just a renderer to systemd-networkd or networkmanager, MAAS is a pile of garbage, Juju never caught on, upstart failed, Unity failed etc...

We're running a lot of Canonical at work and I'm not particularly impressed.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by pjmlp on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:51AM (#35602534)
Nope in what concerns proprietary drivers and FOSS drama.

There is a reason why Canonical was the first option when Microsoft introduced WSL.

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