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243 points aquova | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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musicale ◴[20 Oct 24 22:41 UTC] No.41899084[source]▶
Ubuntu seems to have lost the plot a bit adding things like advertisements for Ubuntu Pro.

This kind of nonsense is one of the things that people hate about Windows.

Also adding extra garbage into CLI sessions is something that I greatly dislike because 1) it's very irritating and adds unnecessary noise and 2) it can break scripts. Some non-Canonical offenders include GNU parallel and Apple's xcode CLI tools. I don't like how vim includes political messages either, even for causes that I might otherwise support, simply because it is distracting when I want to concentrate on getting work done.

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1. kiwijamo ◴[20 Oct 24 22:51 UTC] No.41899132[source]▶
Am surprised you're being downvoted. What you've described is in a nutshell why I don't use Ubuntu -- and why I stick with vanilla Debian instead. I left Windows to get away from certain things such as irritating advertisements and the like.