That was the first time I tried Linux with the free and open thing. I didn’t know much back then and when I saw the ads, I was like… Ooohhh this is ad supported crap. Nope… Not at all
Fucking distro kept me away from my spirit penguin for 2 years before I realized it was ubuntu’s fault.
Pepperidge Farm remembers
They were heavily panned for that back then. My image of Ubuntu of that time is heavily associated with their Unity desktop which they latter dropped(only for it to spring up again).
I liked Unity. Like, a lot.
I still think they should never be able to escape the controversy. It was 10 years ago but the possibly that it could be reintroduced still exists.
They’ve never given me the vibe that that reversal of course was permanent, or that other things they do aren’t similarly anti-user
In many respects, I think the scare manipulation they’re pulling when someone updates their system up try to get them to buy their subscription service is worse, implying that they won’t be getting all of the security patches they need otherwise
Oh no! Another DE to choose from? How awful!
This shit probably put me off trying out Linux for years.
Hopefully you’ve tried another distro by now, and also know to avoid big corporate distros best you can
Been using Mint for a few years now.
I was digging LMDE until my 8GB of ram simply couldn’t handle the load and I’m in AntiX now. Honestly, I’ve watched Mint go from being immature and insecure to security leaders without losing their accessibility. Solid and incredibly important distro if you ask me
Yeah, me too. I quit X the moment Musk took over.
I quit, told him to go fuck himself, that we see who he really is and to delete my account after he started banning journalists who dared to criticize the “free speech absolutionist” dickhead.
Not ads, actual Amazon search results. The good old times when Big Tech wasn’t so radicalizingly big.
didn’t they also put ads for ubuntu pro in your .bashrc?
That’s still there but it appears when you use apt, it’s not in .bashrc.
At least they learned and stopped doing it.The ads are inside the terminal now
Are the ads in the room with us right now?
If you have Ubuntu installed in the room, then yes
Yup, that was when I switched off ubuntu to debian
Huh, I was using Ubuntu as my daily driver circa 2014 and I don’t remember this at all… maybe I stopped just prior to them implementing it… or maybe it just didn’t make enough of an impression for me to notice.
It was also fairly easy to disable
Ehh… not at first. That was a later release.
It was just a package you could uninstall.
Yes, and I don’t consider that an “easy to disable” option for regular users, but that’s just my opinion.
“Easy to disable” is also the wrong approach, IMO. It should have been “easy to enable” - stuff like this should always be opt-in, not opt-out. Opt-out, to me, demonstrates a company’s motivations more than anything else.
I chose the hard way to disable it back then, and switched to Debian.
Yup, debian is where I was before Ubuntu, and where I went back to. Still what I run mostly, plus a few different flavors of it (proxmox for example).
Though I’m also running an arch desktop on one of my play machines, kind of reminds me of having to write my x conf out in the 90s! Not bad overall.
(Never giving up my deb stable servers though!)
Ohhh I probably disabled it right away and then forgot about it.
It could have been earlier? i tried Ubuntu around 2012. I didn’t know how to get rid of the Amazon stuff, and it turned me off Linux…thinking why use this OS that is ad based…wasn’t till 2017 when W10 made our computers slow that I tried linux again.
I think they were just doing a bit
“the ads are coming from inside the house”Canonical would prob do something like this today like how shove snaps
I remember. And how much shit the community flung towards them. And their rep is still stained with it, as it should be.
The ads and the Amazon thing will follow Canonical forever
I don’t. I migrated to Arch in 2011 or 2012 btw. Fuck I feel old.
I missed all the fun because there was no ads in my country, and the Amazon app was just a weird western thing removed right away. Unity was pretty good though.
I’m pretty sure that Canada is considered west
I’m pretty sure I wasn’t born here, detective.
Oh wait, they removed that? I had no idea because I stopped using Ubuntu when they put ads in the dash.
Doesn’t mean they stopped pushing their own shit in places that they have no business touching. I mean:
>
apt install firefox
> look inside
> snapThey’re planning on making a version where everything is a snap. Performance and usability may come later, who knows.
I haven’t used Ubuntu in ages but holy shit that’s awful…