A new installer is in development for Ubuntu. The Canonical Design Team and the Ubuntu Desktop Team are collaborating on new install utility for use in

This seems to be a boost for using Flutter on Linux.

  • @grtcdr
    4•3 years ago

    Yeah why Flutter? Sure the UI looks nice, even better than the old one, but isn’t speed more important than looks especially in an installer? Also,

    First introduced in 2010, Ubiquity is functional and moderately fast, but it is very much of its time; i.e., its ancient codebase is said to be ‘cumbersome’ to work with.

    So 11 year old code is ancient? Don’t we use tools and languages whose codebase is even older than that? Does that mean we should replace Linux because it’s old?

    Bullshit excuse if you ask me…