Ubuntu Loses Features and Breaks Itself Because Canonical Hired a Young British Army Officer to Make Bad Decisions

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 27, 2025

• The New Stack ☛ Ubuntu 25.10 Scraps X11 for Wayland: A Solid Step Forward [Ed: Ubuntu is dropping many features that only X has is not good news; also, it loses compatibility with a lot of software; decisions are made by the blind.]

  I love a good Ubuntu release.

• OMG Ubuntu ☛ Rust Bug Broke Ubuntu 25.10 Automatic Update Checks [Ed: Rust breaks Ubuntu]

  Ubuntu’s decision to switch to Rust-based coreutils in 25.10 hasn’t been the smoothest ride, as the latest — albeit now resolved — bug underscores. The distro’s developers are bullish on the security and stability benefits that “oxidising” Ubuntu’s package set with Rust-based tools provide. In 25.10, it plumbed in Rust-based replacements for sudo and coreutils. The latter is (as you may guess from the name) a set of core utilities that function from the command-line. These are used by a number of processes, apps and scripts, including Ubuntu’s own unattended-upgrades process, which automatically checks for new software updates).