And that's the story of why I switched to Arch <3
Obligatory Ubuntu sucks message

Person one, the user, tells person two, Ubuntu, to "sudo apt upgrade" when their abruptly cutoff by person two saying "subscribe to Ubuntu Pro". Person one reacts by giving person two a disgusted look.
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[+] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not opposed to Canonical's monetisation model. I think charging for extra updates and packages is fine as a way to make money. But I can understand why people don't want advertising in their operating system, though I personally think that a simple line of text showing up on my terminal following a flood of package-fetching and script-running results is tolerable.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Oh wow, I didn't know that. Thank you for clarifying.
    However I have to say I'm not necessarily against self promotion as companies and organisations have to sustain themselves but advertising your service every time the user updates or upgrades is way too much compared to KDE's once-a-year donation request for example (that can be easily disabled).

    On another note I have experienced BTRFS and have seen the light, never returning to ext4 😭😭

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 machines.

    Ubuntu pro Costs handing over your Data to a company.

    And if the whole concept of getting extra security updates for unsupported packages really bothers you

    And if it Bothers you that a company actually supports the packages it is making availible...

    No, Ubuntu pro brings faster Security updates, even for still supported apps.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can't make an account, because I can't complete a Recaptcha. Google Recaptcha is used on every ubuntu.com signin page. (This means I also can't submit bug reports.)

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Usually it's this, but sometimes the Recaptcha doesn't even load (looks like an IP ban). I just submit the form, and then get an error message saying I must complete a Recaptcha, but there's no evidence in the page of any Recaptcha to fill out.

    I'm on a residential ISP. I've checked every IP address reputation system I can find, and see no problems (except from "Clean Talk", but they're so small that I doubt Google uses them).

    Also, I hate knowing that I'm doing unpaid labor to help train an AI that will make the world a worse place.

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