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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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is it really like that or is this a joke

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

    I'm an ubuntu user and it was like that for a brief period but then they removed it after an uproar. I think. I double check it once I'm at my laptop

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I got a ThinkPad with Ubuntu 24.04 preinstalled and I haven't seen a single Ubuntu Pro ad. But I saw them a lot on my old laptop with 22 installed. So either they've changed their ways or I suppose it's possible Lenovo has preconfigured some settings.

    Edit. 24.04 LTS

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  • [–] [S] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Last I used Ubuntu you do indeed get an ad every time you apt upgrade You can still go into some config file and remove it though

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Pretty sure my work laptop tells me every time that I'm not getting some security upgrades, because I'm not using Ubuntu Pro.

    I believe, there's some semi-reasonable justification, that they're only holding back upgrades for packages which they wouldn't normally maintain anymore, but yeah, it still looks horrendous from an end-user perspective.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Just on LTS. Desktop users would only run LTS for 6 months or so. Right, and LTS only releases once every two years. I used LTS on my work laptop at my previous company. Great feature, but I can see it wouldn't be as necessary for the end users. Hey, when everything is great, women have to find something to nit pick, am I right?!

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