The article states reasons which aren't limited to what happened. I understand and agree with your sentiment about the supply chain issue being something that could happen anywhere - those were my initial thoughts too.
The reasons for shifting are related to speed, other mainstream software already having made that switch years ago (pre incident), and unfortunately... More robustness in terms of maintainers.
Open source funding and resilience should be mainstream discussions. Open source verification and security reliability should be mainstream discussions: here's a recent mastodon thread I found interesting:
However, people switching from x to z (I did see what you did there) is something that is going to happen considering the other factors listed in the article that I summarized above.
Based on other posts by the author (they have posted AI generated art before, and attribute when it's not AI generated), I'm pretty sure this is AI generated.
The fine print in the mastodon toot:
Fine print: Happy first of the fourth!
Says Happy first of the fourth, implying first of the fourth (month - April), which is what I based my own hint that this was an April fools joke in a veiled way.
To be honest, I've never owned an apple device: only Android phones and windows (with Linux immediately installed) laptops. However, I kind of like the icon aesthetic the most out of all the ones I've tried.
The theme also grew on me during my Gnome days, so yup, these days I pretend my device is an apple from a cosmetic sense 😂
No software is guaranteed to run on all platforms: the developers choose to make it available or not.
I did some quick googling, and it seems fairly easy to install it:
Use Ubuntu (if you're not familiar with, and don't want to be familiar with terminal basics), and install chirp from the Ubuntu App store. Snap is just a name of their package format, and their app store links to snap craft.
If you're not using Ubuntu, that's your choice, you'll either have to install snap, then do the same, but it's more work. Or play with the terminal just a bit to follow their instructions.
Proprietary snap store backend that is controlled by Canonical: that's it.
I used Ubuntu for years: installed it for family and friends. I moved away around a year ago.
Moving packages like Firefox to snap was what first started annoying me.
If the backend was open source, and the community could have hosted their own (like how flatpak repositories can be), I might have been slightly more forgiving.
Did a quick Google to find if someone had elaborated, here's a good one:
The article states reasons which aren't limited to what happened. I understand and agree with your sentiment about the supply chain issue being something that could happen anywhere - those were my initial thoughts too.
The reasons for shifting are related to speed, other mainstream software already having made that switch years ago (pre incident), and unfortunately... More robustness in terms of maintainers.
Open source funding and resilience should be mainstream discussions. Open source verification and security reliability should be mainstream discussions: here's a recent mastodon thread I found interesting:
https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/112202543680959859
However, people switching from x to z (I did see what you did there) is something that is going to happen considering the other factors listed in the article that I summarized above.