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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

[–] intro@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh god, what did they do? Do they show ads on the gui?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

I see they have the lobes for business.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's free for personal use though. Canonical have turned ubuntu rather corporate, but let's stick to the facts.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair point.

Counterpoint: why should I be compelled to give Canonical literally anything besides using the package manager to say “I’m using your software and I want the update”? Why do we need this additional new corporate-authorized side channel? What benefit does this yield, outside the realm of profit?

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I agree.

They're a for-profit company, ubuntu pro is supposed to entice business customers. You and I get introduced, because canonical hope that we might use ubuntu profesionally and they gain a new customer. I don't hate it personally, but I see why people don't like it.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, they’re withholding security updates unless you pay? Hope they go bankrupt.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kubuntu is just an Ubuntu spin, so I’m gonna say yeah, probably. If you really like Deb flavored distros these days, just go with the OG.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

way too difficult to set up, i don't have a lot of free time so i need an "out of the box" distro

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Q4OS is debian with KDE and it's made for ex-Windows users

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

Debian comes with KDE Plasma on their official site.

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

never heard of this one. definitely going to try it!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Debian is honestly pretty trivial to set up these days.

If you’re open to trying Fedora, I’ve been running F40KDE and Kinoite on two of my main personal laptops and I love them

[–] kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

i have tried fedora and nobara a few times but they randomly make my hdd unmountable and it's difficult to get it back. even after installing a different distro.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Not sure I'd want to see that, tbh. It would only introduce more avenues for DDG to make questionable choices when they're already on thin ice.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago