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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. sgarland ◴[20 Oct 24 23:31 UTC] No.41899404[source]▶

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GNU parallel asks you to acknowledge its license once, IIRC? Doesn’t seem like that big of an ask.

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2. theamk ◴[21 Oct 24 01:20 UTC] No.41899885[source]▶

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once per user per machine, which means it's basically unusable in scripts you share ir use in CI.

I avoid it for that reason. For simple cases, I use xargs; and for complex, small (stdlib-only) python scripts - they are a bit more verbose but infinitely easier to debug and improve.

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