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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)

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

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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.

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

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

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I see they have the lobes for business.

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

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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.

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

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