atomicStan comments on Ubuntu's trust problem in 4 concrete issues

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago (64 children)

Strong agree. I use a derivative that blocks snaps instead of direct Kubuntu now, and it wasn't Just because of the snaps.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago (60 children)

I use a derivative

Without Ubuntu Pro subscription the entire Universe repository does not receive any security updates by Canonical:

https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-pro-enhanced-security-and-manageability-for-linux-desktop

You should consider switching to an entirely independent distribution that does not lock security updates behind a paywall, perhaps something based directly on Debian or Fedora.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (17 children)

What's a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?

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[–] atomicStan@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

uses apt

May I ask why you seem to be married to the use of apt?

~~Just couldn't pass up on the opportunity to insert this banger.~~

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Isn't apt still better at resolving the dependency tree than other managers? (Idk if it is, but vaguely heard so.)

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[–] atomicStan@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

IIRC, historically, it was (one of) the first to do so. It took a significant time for (most^[Slackware, famously, continues to not have a dependency resolver. Though, they got their reasons.]) others to catch up.