Yeah, it’s a pain. Leads to bad one liners:

for i in $(ls); do zcat $i || cat $i; done

Is that Har Mar Superstar?

1. Pretty sure it’s not closed source? https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/snap_without_ubuntu_tools/

2. Isn’t that the purpose though of Ubuntu though? They made it easy, everything is open source, and then people/companies/orgs that want to do things different can just fork it and do their own thing. If they make a better product according to even 1 person, great. Job done. Plenty of people are happy with vanilla Ubuntu.

I don’t even use Ubuntu but I sure appreciate the amount of work they’ve done over the years and I feel they get a lot of stick about it for no good reason.

I used to have issues with the different processor types, I used to downgrade to the core2duo to get things to boot.