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No telemetry. No overriding auto-update settings. No license to pay.

by agustif 6y ago

delfinom 6y ago
As long as it's not ubuntu for the first two points
- josephcsible 6y ago
  Saying Ubuntu has telemetry like Windows is shaky at best. Ubuntu asks you whether you want it, doesn't mandate it for people who don't buy enterprise licenses, and doesn't sneak in new kinds of telemetry when you already disabled what's there. Saying Ubuntu overrides auto-update settings is just false. If you turn off automatic updates, nothing will automatically update.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - fgonzag 6y ago
    Mind telling us how to disable auto updating in snaps (or for a specific snap)? You've just solved a huge issue for the ubuntu community
    - josephcsible 6y ago
      I acknowledge that they don't make this easy, but at least there is a way to do it: by downloading a snap manually and then sideloading it from the local file, it won't ever automatically update: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for-snap-from-store/707/269 https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
    - michaelmrose 6y ago
      The solution is just not to use snaps. Snap is trash. Consider PPAs if you need the most recent version of a particular piece of software.
      - RMPR 6y ago
        In my experience PPAs often break on upgrades
        michaelmrose 6y ago
        Traditionally there is some manual work to do in updating ppas to point to the new release but apparently assistance also exists for the lazy https://askubuntu.com/questions/42895/is-there-a-tool-to-update-my-ppa-sources-list-entries-after-upgrading https://askubuntu.com/questions/42895/is-there-a-tool-to-upd... You can also set RELEASE_UPGRADER_ALLOW_THIRD_PARTY=1 before running the updater to allow third party repos to remain enabled during upgrade.
  - windsurfer 6y ago
    This isn't quite true anymore. Snap software will still automatically update even if system updates are off. You have to either edit your hosts file to block the snap domain or disable the snapd.service in a command line to prevent the automatic updates.
    - RMPR 6y ago
      Good thing Linux offers choice, and if you are not okay you can just change your distro.
- sergeykish 6y ago
  Even if Canonical ever become evil, we have distributions and it is open source. You can change any part, a lot of distributions built on top of Ubuntu. For example Google can disable uBlock in Chromium, some would switch to Ungoogled, Iridium, some to Opera, Brave, Vivaldi. Imagine if Windows, macOS, Google services were easy to fork.
gitgud 6y ago
No "Candy Crush" ads in the start menu
- RMPR 6y ago
  Last time I checked it was "Royal Revolt"

No telemetry. No overriding auto-update settings. No license to pay.

delfinom 6y ago

As long as it's not ubuntu for the first two points

josephcsible 6y ago
Saying Ubuntu has telemetry like Windows is shaky at best. Ubuntu asks you whether you want it, doesn't mandate it for people who don't buy enterprise licenses, and doesn't sneak in new kinds of telemetry when you already disabled what's there. Saying Ubuntu overrides auto-update settings is just false. If you turn off automatic updates, nothing will automatically update.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- fgonzag 6y ago
  Mind telling us how to disable auto updating in snaps (or for a specific snap)? You've just solved a huge issue for the ubuntu community
  - josephcsible 6y ago
    I acknowledge that they don't make this easy, but at least there is a way to do it: by downloading a snap manually and then sideloading it from the local file, it won't ever automatically update: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for-snap-from-store/707/269 https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
  - michaelmrose 6y ago
    The solution is just not to use snaps. Snap is trash. Consider PPAs if you need the most recent version of a particular piece of software.
    - RMPR 6y ago
      In my experience PPAs often break on upgrades
      - michaelmrose 6y ago
        Traditionally there is some manual work to do in updating ppas to point to the new release but apparently assistance also exists for the lazy https://askubuntu.com/questions/42895/is-there-a-tool-to-update-my-ppa-sources-list-entries-after-upgrading https://askubuntu.com/questions/42895/is-there-a-tool-to-upd... You can also set RELEASE_UPGRADER_ALLOW_THIRD_PARTY=1 before running the updater to allow third party repos to remain enabled during upgrade.
- windsurfer 6y ago
  This isn't quite true anymore. Snap software will still automatically update even if system updates are off. You have to either edit your hosts file to block the snap domain or disable the snapd.service in a command line to prevent the automatic updates.
  - RMPR 6y ago
    Good thing Linux offers choice, and if you are not okay you can just change your distro.
sergeykish 6y ago
Even if Canonical ever become evil, we have distributions and it is open source. You can change any part, a lot of distributions built on top of Ubuntu. For example Google can disable uBlock in Chromium, some would switch to Ungoogled, Iridium, some to Opera, Brave, Vivaldi. Imagine if Windows, macOS, Google services were easy to fork.

gitgud 6y ago

No "Candy Crush" ads in the start menu

RMPR 6y ago
Last time I checked it was "Royal Revolt"