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> Ubuntu Pro is available for free for personal use, but it requires you to attach a unique license key to your Ubuntu installation, which will be tracked by Ca

> Ubuntu Pro is available for free for personal use, but it requires you to attach a unique license key to your Ubuntu installation, which will be tracked by Canonical. Let the enshittification commence...

nicolaslem 3y ago
I don't want to sound too cynical but the enshittification of Ubuntu started way before that.
- repelsteeltje 3y ago
  +1 touché
pipo234 3y ago
It's nice that there is a work-around. This time. And the next time. I for one use System76' Pop!OS derivative (which is great!), but that might ultimately play out like a RHEL <-> CentOS/Rocky/Alma drama. It will take another while, but it looks like Debian is our last hope for community linux (in apt ecosystem).
- Filligree 3y ago
  Arch, Gentoo and NixOS also exist…
  - krylon 3y ago
    True, but the GP wrote "community linux (in apt ecosystem)" Arch, Gentoo, and NixOS don't use apt. However, neither does OpenSUSE, which is probably a better choice for non-technical users.
  - mikepurvis 3y ago
    Normally when people talk about pro/enterprise/premium, what they're really talking about is long term support for a "stable" release, since that the thankless backporting work that you need to pay people to do. And those are all rolling distros, so I don't think they're a fit for anyone with that class of enterprise needs. NixOS has supported releases, but as far as I'm aware, each one gets less than a year— 22.11 was just deprecated in favour of the current 23.05 and the upcoming 23.11.
    - bravetraveler 3y ago
      In this case it's even more LTS -- ESM. It's LTS for LTS, life support beyond the initial release timeline It can be useful for very slow to move businesses like my employer
  - type0 3y ago
    I know that some people run Arch on servers, why they do it is complete mystery to me. At least Gentoo and especially NixOS has some legitimate reasons to exist on servers.
waynesonfire 3y ago
I switched to freebsd long time ago. Like a fine wine gets better with age.
FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Let the enshittification commence. My feelings on the direction of present day Ubuntu: "You were supposed to destroy The Sith (aka Windows), not join them!"
m463 3y ago
come on, they've been doing this kind of stuff for years. The system search used to go to amazon. There is lots of messy forced upgrade stuff in the os. If you try to apt-get remove ubuntu-advantage-tools, it will cripple your system. the motd-news system does a lot of silly stuff under the covers, with plenty of contact with canonical's servers.

nicolaslem 3y ago

I don't want to sound too cynical but the enshittification of Ubuntu started way before that.

repelsteeltje 3y ago
+1 touché

pipo234 3y ago

It's nice that there is a work-around. This time. And the next time. I for one use System76' Pop!OS derivative (which is great!), but that might ultimately play out like a RHEL <-> CentOS/Rocky/Alma drama. It will take another while, but it looks like Debian is our last hope for community linux (in apt ecosystem).

Filligree 3y ago
Arch, Gentoo and NixOS also exist…
- krylon 3y ago
  True, but the GP wrote "community linux (in apt ecosystem)" Arch, Gentoo, and NixOS don't use apt. However, neither does OpenSUSE, which is probably a better choice for non-technical users.
- mikepurvis 3y ago
  Normally when people talk about pro/enterprise/premium, what they're really talking about is long term support for a "stable" release, since that the thankless backporting work that you need to pay people to do. And those are all rolling distros, so I don't think they're a fit for anyone with that class of enterprise needs. NixOS has supported releases, but as far as I'm aware, each one gets less than a year— 22.11 was just deprecated in favour of the current 23.05 and the upcoming 23.11.
  - bravetraveler 3y ago
    In this case it's even more LTS -- ESM. It's LTS for LTS, life support beyond the initial release timeline It can be useful for very slow to move businesses like my employer
- type0 3y ago
  I know that some people run Arch on servers, why they do it is complete mystery to me. At least Gentoo and especially NixOS has some legitimate reasons to exist on servers.

waynesonfire 3y ago

I switched to freebsd long time ago. Like a fine wine gets better with age.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

>Let the enshittification commence. My feelings on the direction of present day Ubuntu: "You were supposed to destroy The Sith (aka Windows), not join them!"

m463 3y ago

come on, they've been doing this kind of stuff for years. The system search used to go to amazon. There is lots of messy forced upgrade stuff in the os. If you try to apt-get remove ubuntu-advantage-tools, it will cripple your system. the motd-news system does a lot of silly stuff under the covers, with plenty of contact with canonical's servers.