Other good reasons to move away from Ubuntu: * They show you ads on login * They periodically phone home with: Ubuntu version, kernel version, architecture, C

Other good reasons to move away from Ubuntu: * They show you ads on login * They periodically phone home with: Ubuntu version, kernel version, architecture, CPU model, curl/wget version, cloud (if applicable; aws/openstack/...). This is part of the delivery system of the ads mentioned above. See /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news for the actual script.