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248 points aquova | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | 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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sgarland ◴[20 Oct 24 23:31 UTC] No.41899404[source]▶
GNU parallel asks you to acknowledge its license once, IIRC? Doesn’t seem like that big of an ask.
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1. musicale ◴[23 Oct 24 05:54 UTC] No.41922209[source]▶
Yes, so does clang/clang++ on macOS. It is an anti-pattern that should not be replicated. Imagine if every command line tool made a similar demand.