• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

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

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              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?

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                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.

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

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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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            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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              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

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                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.

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      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.

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          Can you only get hard by trolling? Or are you just really seriously lonely and depressed?

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              AIDS? So sexual frustration is definitely a key part of your pathology. Interesting.

              Tell me, how often do you think about close female relatives of yours? Are you mostly imagining hurting them, molesting them, or both?

              I’m betting it’s both.

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                  I’m sensing genuine hostility here, so clearly I struck a nerve.

                  Tell you what, I think that’s enough introspection for today, I’ll let you get back to finding sexual release through trolling.

                  Honestly, I think that’s probably healthier than whatever you had planned for that female relative of yours. If this helps keep her safe from your instability and acting on fantasies of violence, sexual or otherwise, I think you should keep on trolling.

                  Godspeed my sick little buddy, godspeed.