abadideaJun 2
General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you and your time, and definitely not give you a job. This article I saw today is like the thirteenth of its kind that I personally have seen https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
My experience with Canonical's interview process

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

Show threadhalvaJun 2
@0xabad1dea every single time i hear about canonical's culture it's somehow the exact same thing, for years every single time

how do they manage to not improve at all
Show threadCassandrichJun 2

@halva @0xabad1dea Because people keep using their shit Linux distro and treating it like the gold standard.

They should have been irrelevant and out of business a decade ago.

Show threadNecheshJun 2
@dalias @halva @0xabad1dea their distro didn't start out shitty. When I first tried it #Ubuntu was cleaner and easier to use than anything else. Over time it got worse and worse, as did Canonical business practices. I dropped them about 12 years ago and never looked back. It makes me sad that it's still the standard that non-free software uses to build packages for.
Show threadChris [list of emoji]

@nechesh @dalias @halva @0xabad1dea

Point of order. Their distro has always been excellent, because it's based on Debian, which is excellent. Ubuntu just made the installation and setup process easier, and that was enough to make it the reference Linux platform for a lot of important software.

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Show threadNecheshJun 2
@suetanvil @dalias @halva @0xabad1dea hard disagree. There's a fair amount of things related to UI (e.g. Mir display, their own desktop experience) service management, package installation, capturing searches and sending ads based on those searches that are not part of Debian and made it objectively worse.
Show threadaveJun 2
@suetanvil @nechesh @dalias @halva @0xabad1dea they still have a benefit: they have modernish packages, which debian does not outside of sid. oh and ubuntu advantage and it being free for individuals. only two reasons why I use them tbh.
Show threadNecheshJun 2
@ao @suetanvil @dalias @halva @0xabad1dea I'm not here to tell you not to use Ubuntu, just explaining why I don't. It's clearly better than Microsoft Windows.
Show threadaveJun 2
@nechesh @suetanvil @dalias @halva @0xabad1dea it was a reply to debian comparison, and I noted that they have a few benefits over debian (which in turn loses some of the niceties of debian, like "stability" (but I can't just be running a long-EoL asterisk, but that's all debian's got)).
Show threadCassandrichJun 2

@nechesh @ao @suetanvil @halva @0xabad1dea Going from Windows to Ubuntu is a lot like going from Birdchan to Bluesky.

Yes it's an improvement, but it's missing the point that corporate ownership is the root problem.