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Ubuntu ruined it when they included their advertising and marketing engine straight up in the unity interface. Debian is at least not trying to sell all your in
by botto 10y ago
Ubuntu ruined it when they included their advertising and marketing engine straight up in the unity interface. Debian is at least not trying to sell all your info.
- jeanlucas 10y agoI thought it was completely optional and you can turn it off if you scrub the settings for less than 1 minute.
- nol13 10y agoSounds like a Microsoft response, please stay away from my GNU/Linux thx. (but yes using Ubuntu MATE is a perfectly viable option)
- pluma 10y agoConsidering Windows 10's privacy scandal, the Microsoft response would rather have been "You can limit it by scrubbing the settings or disable it completely by buying the Enterprise version".
- nol13 10y ago"You can limit it by scrubbing the settings, until the next update when we will accidentally enable it again, and also it was really never limited much anyway, or disable it completely by buying the Enterprise version. Also all of your outbound connection are monitored anyway by various parties too so the whole thing is more or less futile, here try this cloud." ftfy
- type0 10y agoLinux Mint is good but definitely not great, it's biggest flaw that isn't true Ubuntu so you can't rely on base fixes that would work on all Ubuntu flavors. Ubuntu Mate is such an underrated distro, it's faster than GNOME2 base ever was, it's customizable, the only thing what's missing is more advanced menu. GNOME menu should never been included in the first place (too unstable). Wimpy and others on UM forums talked about finding new more modern menu for a long time, I hope we will see some progress there. Synapse launcher on Ubuntu MATE can be unstable sometimes, but at least there are so many alternatives.
- fulafel 10y agoThe Amazon thing was disabled by default in 16.04.
- nol13 10y agoCould be wrong, but thought when I tried it out it was still installed and would show up in the menu even if "disabled," and was a PITA to actually remove completely.
- chronic6l 10y agoThe Amazon "thing" is most definitely enabled on the sidebar by default in 16.04.
- fulafel 10y agoThe Unity Amazon search integration was disabled. The Amazon button is just a shortcut that opens the Amazon web page.
- nol13 10y agoEh, close enough. I appreciate that Canonical spends a lot of cash developing and hosting Ubuntu but if this is the only way that they can do it then thanks but no thanks.