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The ad bombardment will be the end of non-free software.

• lrem 5y ago
  Weren't there ads in Ubuntu?
  • genewitch 5y ago
    There were suggestions when you used the meta?(windows) key and then typed something in Ubuntu. Windows does this too, I forget who did it first. I went from xp x64 to win 7 ultimate to win10pro and managed to keep the telemetry to a minimum as much as I could. IIRC the Ubuntu change was pushed in a non-LTS distribution. As an aside I think 5 year LTS is too few, with the advances made in AI/ML in the last decade five years on os support means that 80% of all the tooling is broken now, at least without spending lots of time backporting or hacking fixes in.
    • pritambaral 5y ago
      > advances made in AI/ML in the last decade five years on os support means that 80% of all the tooling is broken now, at least without spending lots of time backporting or hacking fixes in. Ubuntu LTS releases are 2 years apart. You don't have to keep using 5-year old LTSes, do you?
  • lmm 5y ago
    There were, briefly. Hopefully they learnt their lesson from the backlash to that.