This video is a bit dramatic, nothing can be worse than a Windows 11 update…However, I do have some grievances with the reliance of snaps. Given the recent spate of software vulnerabilities associated with Snaps, if Canonical is going to push them on users. They better get snappy with the security hardening of their pet project, as one cannot be Microslop messy when it comes to creating proprietary software packaging and ecosystem! I also do agree that removing the easy way of setting up PPAs and software sources graphically is a bad move on Canonical’s part.

X11 is doomed to die, the discussions were had, and the maintaining that shambling corpse for any longer when Wayland is a good replacement that will become better with time. GNOME decided to drop X11 faster than KDE (they will be dropping in the next few releases). However, there will still be distros that take on the effort to maintain X11 despite it being a shambling corpse…

Canonical falling in step with GNOME on that decision isn’t the worst thing in the world. Canonical dropping X11 means less work maintaining it, as long as they pour that saved effort into better ventures, bully for them. Honestly, even Wayland isn’t going to be forever, and I hope they transition into a better display manager faster than the X11 to Wayland process.

I haven’t used Ubuntu in a hot minute, as openSUSE Tumbleweed and Solus has filled my needs so far…I think Ubuntu 26.04 will be a solid release (barring any release day issues, that are known to happen).