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Ubuntu Pro

by smackay on 1/14/24, 7:01 AM with 45 comments

  • by mcsniff on 1/14/24, 3:59 PM

    I am so over getting ads for Ubuntu Pro at login, through apt, and anywhere else they might decide to put them.

    Fedora has really been making some great strides over the last decade or so.

    After disagreeing with some decisions Canonical/Ubuntu were making, I have been a happy user since 2013 (Fedora 20). Recently started contributing as a package maintainer and quite frankly, Asahi Linux choosing to base on Fedora has just caused me to double down on it being a good call.

  • by methou on 1/14/24, 10:40 AM

    After ubuntu made the whole OS depends on the Ubuntu-advantage-tools I quitted using it and used Debian, never looked back.

    OT:

    There’s a cookie pop up covering 80% percent of the page, asking about “your tracking settings” with one green encouraging button saying “accept all and visit site” and a white button displaying “manage your tracker settings”

    I have AdGuard on iOS with annoyance filters on.

  • by retrochameleon on 1/15/24, 2:43 AM

    We have been considering Ubuntu Pro as an IT team to simplify managing dependencies and security for any of our Linux VMs. Ease-of-use is a big priority in this particular team. I'm working towards getting them some ansible infrastructure in place to mass-configure many of these systems. This team also can't always be expected to be super competent with Linux or a command line.

    Any suggestions or alternatives to Ubuntu Pro that I should consider?

  • by vlod on 1/14/24, 8:35 PM

    PopOS is here and there are traditional choc-chip cookies still available.

    They are also in the process of ditching GNOME and moving to Rust [0]. (For those that get exciting about that sort of thing).

    [0] https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha

  • by spaceman_2020 on 1/15/24, 5:48 AM

    After being on Ubuntu for the last half decade, I moved to MacOS. Couldn’t have been happier.

    My Ubuntu powered laptops weren’t any significantly cheaper than a comparable Macbook, and the minor annoyances on Ubuntu were starting to outnumber the benefits.

  • by Tainnor on 1/15/24, 9:15 AM

    For all of Canonical's faults (e.g. snap really seems like a bad technology), Ubuntu is still a Linux distribution and if you don't like a certain thing, you can always swap things out. If you don't like GNOME, use KDE, Xfce or any other DE. If the firefox snap takes forever to load, use the flatpak, etc. It's certainly opinionated, but not closed down in the way that macOS or Windows are.

    I'm still quite happy using Ubuntu and while it's not perfect, I prefer it to other alternatives I've tried (e.g. Linux Mint is too annoying to update with its "only a backup + fresh reinstall is a safe upgrade" policy, Arch requires too much maintenance, etc.).

  • by justinclift on 1/14/24, 12:36 PM

    Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ubuntu. ;)

  • by zepolen on 1/14/24, 10:34 AM

    I really wonder why anyone would use Ubuntu when Debian exists.

  • by kn100 on 1/15/24, 9:31 AM

    I'm happy we live in a world with so many decent desktop Linux distros. I was a happy Ubuntu user since 7.10, but recently with Snap canonical irritated me to the point of switching, and I hopped around a couple distros before settling in Opensuse Tumbleweed. if you want the benefits of a rolling distro like Arch without the bullshit of dealing with Arch, I highly recommend it.

  • by somewhereoutth on 1/14/24, 3:33 PM

    May I recommend Linux Mint, specifically the MATE edition.

    It is Ubuntu based, but without much of the crap, and continues the classic Gnome 2 desktop.

  • by lproven on 1/15/24, 12:33 PM

    Ubuntu is still a solid distro, but Snap and Pro seem to annoy people.

    The distro formerly known as Zinc, and now known as Asmi, is a good alternative.

    LTS version:

    https://teejeetech.com/2023/04/22/zinc-22-04-3/

    More current release:

    https://teejeetech.com/2023/10/14/asmi-23-10-formerly-zinc/

    It's Ubuntu, with Snap removed, no Flatpak either, but built-in AppImage support and the improved Nala and Deb-get package management tools for getting and updating native .DEB-packaged software.

    And it has Xfce, the least-nonsense-filled light-weight Linux desktop there is.

    It's good.

  • by spicyusername on 1/14/24, 1:02 PM

    A bummer it seems like we're losing both Ubuntu and RHEL at the same time...

  • by oopsthrowpass on 1/14/24, 2:24 PM

    On Desktop I am perfectly happy running Debian sid again after a long detour to Mac OS X until it got enshittified too much. Ubuntu is interesting for enterprise use though, the microcloud and LXC/LXD stuff is at least worth considering if starting to build things up on bare metal. Containers are relatively easy with Nomad/K8s, but if you want to spin up your own VM layer (OpenStack?) then I would consider Ubuntu before going to Nutanix and others