Seems like there is missing context here. Part of doing your job is communicating changes and explaining your reasoning when needed, "Unbuntu is doomed" doesn't really cover the need for communications. From the story I have no idea why there would be a need to switch form Ubuntu to Fedora - seems like a personal preference choice and that might look like change for the sake of change and no meaningful benefit to someone in a another group. Feeling like there is another side to the story here.
Author is saying that the company already decided they are migrating from Ubuntu to Fedora. That’s not the controversy.
In a Slack channel, someone said “Ubuntu is doomed”. Not because Ubuntu, as a distro, will soon reach end-of-life, but because at $COMPANY, Ubuntu will be replaced by Fedora. That is to say, “Ubuntu is doomed (at $COMPANY)”.
What author is objecting to is people joining the conversation several hours later and expressing unhappiness that someone is predicting the end of Ubuntu everywhere.
But that’s because the new person wasn’t in the conversation, lacks context, and maybe should start by assuming the best intent rather than the worst intent.
It seems to me that this is kind of irrelevant to the point of the post. Also, if you would like more context, there is a first sentence to this post that links the post that explains the context. Specifically:
> What would happen is this: a couple of people would get to talking (on Slack, for that is what they used) about something technical. There might be a topic at hand, like "Ubuntu is doomed", and they'd be hashing it out, figuring out what that meant. Then, invariably, someone would pop in two or three hours later, hit the hated "start thread" button on one of the comments, and would start shitting all over them.
> "OMG why are you hating on Canonical" "Ubuntu is NOT DOOMED"
> And then the people involved would have to walk this person back and say, look friend, Ubuntu at this company is doomed, because the company has decided that everything is moving from flavor X to flavor Y, and all of the flavor Y images are built from Fedora (yeah, I know, ignore that for this story) instead of X's Ubuntu. So once we're done with the migration, Ubuntu at this company is a goner!
