> Something tells me the usual critics still won't be satisfied, but these are both a big deal and tell a story about listening to the improvements that were de

> Something tells me the usual critics still won't be satisfied, but these are both a big deal and tell a story about listening to the improvements that were desired by users. As a current user of Ubuntu (and someone who has only defaulted to Ubuntu from the day Shuttleworth shipped a set of like 10 CDs for me to install Ubuntu), I hope this isn’t Canonical’s take in this situation. Automatic updates and replacements while using the app was egregious behavior by default, and the fact that users couldn’t turn it off for years is not something that is resolved by them fixing it after users suffered with it for years. The fact that they introduced it without an off switch, something that even Apple, which is the ultimate control freak still provides on iOS, the ultimate corporate control freak platform, is not something to be proud of. The question it raises is what insane settingless default Ubuntu might push onto its users next. And fixing it years later does not answer that question at all. The only thing it does is Ubuntu admitting that they were wrong after spending years pretending otherwise. Something they’ve also done with other insane decisions, such as Mir, for example.