Dell Latitude E5570. Ubuntu 24.04
When updating my system, the file list looks like this:
Thank you.
Ubuntu Pro is a part of their paid-for service and one of the reasons I no longer use Ubuntu. I’m pretty sure there is a free-tier to their “Pro” service, my problem with it is that they sneak it in (apparently) to all installations which has causes many queries such as this.
So, does it matter? Well, it depends on what they do commercially … because what they’re offering is a commercial service (albeit free) there’s nothing to stop them from changing the parameters of what’s free in the future, which might mean you’re in a state where you either need to reinstall or pay. i.e. despite it being Linux, my view is that it’s no longer free in the way that it used to be or indeed in a way that people necessarily expect.
I’m very happy with my move to Debian. I don’t think I have any remaining Ubuntu installations either here or in my cloud setup. This only really came to light for me when I was looking to pre-install Ubuntu on workstations.
Thank you for that - it’s very helpful.
I have considered Debian some time ago but when I looked into it I was put off by the large number of esoteric commands needed to install it. All that has changed now with your Universal Boot-Loader key.
For now I will stick with Ubuntu unless/until it looks like the greyed-out security options are actually necessary. And in the meantime I shall have a closer look at Debian. Presumably I can install the gnome-session-flashback desktop?
Ok, so Ubuntu is a ‘modified’ version of Debian. I get everything on Debian that I had on Ubuntu, whether it’s Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc etc. What I don’t get at the things I don’t like, for example “Ubuntu Pro” and “netplan” and other Ubuntu enhancements.
Note; Another problem I have is LXD, which is an Ubuntu product for virtualisation and clustering, been part of Ubuntu for a long time. Relatively recently they dropped it … which meant moving my entire platform onto the now Open Source version (“incus”) which is being maintained by the same key developer, he’s just now not working for Ubuntu. Just feels like they are pulling away from the community.
I guess this is just the normal cycle of things. People move on in both ideas and environments. Users always need stability rather than “enhancements” but developers want job satisfaction which always entails change.
Plus ça change.
Mm, I tend to thing it’s the management mis-match thing in action … the one where the guys in charge want to do it one way, but the guys who built it and actually know how it works, want to do it in a way that’s going to work … and management don’t like being told “no”.
In this instance the first thing that broke for me was the image repository … so all of a sudden, with no apparent notice, I could no longer deploy new instances to my cluster without first redeploying my entire infrastructure. This is the kind of thing big companies do, user’s are getting it for free, so what if we cause them a lot of pain. Open Source developers on the other hand will bend over backward to prevent this sort of thing.
It’s very disappointing, Ubuntu were kind of “it” for me for maybe 15 years … but I guess this is essentially what happened to RedHat in the end. I was running everything on Redhat from ~ 1995 → 2003 … then Redhat went commercial and all of a sudden, everything needed to be non-redhat, which was a massive upheaval.
I think I’ve used my last commercial distro.
Maybe, but even the non-commercial, open-source sources will change, and not always in ways that will suit everyone. I am just grateful that there are people like your good self who can understand the nature of the changes and keep the rest of us out of trouble.
