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Top post of PCMR on Reddit today XD (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Wait a bit Ubuntu is next. They already added terminal ads, embedded affiliate links for amazon, and sold user data to amazon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Wait that was real? I thought that was a joke someone made cuz I believe I saw an image of it on one of the meme communities.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (10 children)

The Amazon story is really old and Ubuntu did hear the critical voices and reverted the change. The terminal ads can be annoying on servers but you can turn them off.

https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Disable_dynamic_motd_and_motd_news_spam_on_Ubuntu_18.04.html

If you want to throw dirt on Ubuntu, let's talk about Snaps and the messy Snap Store and how the current Ubuntu site looks like (not desktop user friendly really), and what they did to LXD

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

AFAIK the "terminal ads" were suggesting Ubuntu Pro when using the package management. It's very far away from actual ads. Just the free version suggesting the paid one. Not ad space sold to third parties.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just the free version suggesting the paid one. Not ad space sold to third parties.

You've read it here, folks. Microsoft just needs to promote Xbox deals and such, then it's not an ad space sold to third parties. (Either that or you're holding Canonical to a different standard than Microsoft.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

It would be more like MS selling extended support, which is fair and relevant to something being on the update page.

Would it be bad if a community driven distro had a donations link once a year in the package manager? Not really. A bit annoying, but we still live in a world where they need money too.