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Your complaints would make a great infomercial setup.

"Are you tired of your Linux distro being bought out and crushed by IBM exactly one time in history?" Cut to a big dopey confused person shrugging. "Well then try Apple!" Dopey person smiles. Star wipe.

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I mean the writing seems to be on the wall that someone is going to buy Canonical and crush Ubuntu at some point in the medium-term.

My bet is Microsoft. One day we will have Windows-native snaps. Hmm...

Wow. That sounds surprisingly probable, now that you bring it up. Ubuntu is wildly popular, but requires a lot of money. Microsoft has a lot of money and seems to be trending toward open source.

Microsoft turned down an offer to bid on Red Hat, whose enterprise focus is a much better fit for them, before the sale to IBM so there's no reason to believe they would bid for Canonical.

https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amaz...

Other than Ubuntu being the favoured WSL distro.

The great consolidations of linxuses of the 2020s. Back to BSDs?

Debian is still available. And it's great.

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