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32-bit closed source software won't be suddenly recompiled to satisfy some open source purity standard. People will stop using Ubuntu for games - and "linux has no games" will be a strong argument again. Gaming is a huge issue on linux that only recently was solved with Steam+Proton and Ubuntu team just decided to screw with it. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Just like Red-Hat a couple of years ago, Canonical has shifted focus to IoT and server support, because desktop Linux brings no money.

I doubt they will be that much affected.

Or people will just get it as a snap.

In a format that will be as dead as unity, mir, ubuntu phone, and upstart in a few years.

Nothing that ubuntu strikes out on their own with ever works out.

upstart was an rhel thing

Upstart was originally developed by Canonical. Several years after it shipped in Ubuntu, it was shipped in RHEL6. RHEL7 replaced it with systemd. While it probably had some RedHat contributions, to call it a RHEL thing does not make much sense.

Mir is actually still alive and being developed at Canonical.

Ubuntu phone (the software stack of Mir and Unity8, running on Ubuntu, on phones, as opposed to a phone backed by Canonical) is still alive, usable and arguably the most mature of the FOSS "GNU/Linux on a phone" projects.

And in a few years you can just switch to flatpack or whatever it is that wins out, not like you're locked in for life just the packages exists as snaps today.

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