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> Linux didn't win the way anyone expected. There was no dramatic moment where Ubuntu overtook Windows on the desktop. No press conference. No champagne. Linux won the way open source always wins — gradually, relentlessly, by being better at the things that matter most to the people building the future.

**Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed**

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Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed

The tech industry has failed to properly acknowledge this for years: Linux won. Not "Linux is doing fine." Not "Linux is making progress." N...

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@9x0rg is it a win when Ubuntu shoves the snap ecosystem down my throat? Is it beating Windows or becoming Windows?

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Carl Myrland 1d ago

@Qbitzerre unless somebody pays you to use Ubuntu, you are very much free to find another distro that doesn't use snap. Canonical/Ubuntu have their reasons for going with snap, but they are by no means shoving it down your throat. You are still free to choose something else if you don't like it. @9x0rg

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@cmyrland @9x0rg I have actually removed snap from my Ubuntu boxes in the past. But this misses the point. The use of computers is not shoved down my throat either.

I'm free to compile the kernel too. I usually don't, do you? The subject at hand was the dominance of Linux. When a dominant distribution starts incorporating a default repository that is proprietary and exclusive while coercing its use, this significantly changes the landscape. I'll characterize it as throat-shoving. You do you.