• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    One of the most useless coworkers I ever had got a job at Canonical. He also seemed like just the guy to be hyped to take about his high school friends despite being in his late thirties at the time.

    He was one of three people I ever knew to actually get fired from that company, and that was only after he just casually stole about 20 thousand dollars of equipment from work. He returned most of it and they agreed to not call the cops just fire him.

    Anyway, guess I’m just saying I don’t trust their ability to correctly select good employees. Also some of their work is amateur hour.

    The main two things they got right:

    • Debian testing was a better basis for a good balance of current yet workable software.
    • Making it super easy to install Nvidia drivers, ultimately making then the favored choice of the Nvidia centric ai market.

    Their actual technical developments have been underwhelming or actively against what I would want to see.