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Is Ubuntu Treating Its Users as If They Can’t Be Trusted? (linuxiac.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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Ubuntu has taken another step that, honestly, leaves me scratching my head. While most distributions try to offer as many convenient GUI tools as possible to help users manage every part of their system, Ubuntu… apparently sees things a bit differently.

I say this because Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (scheduled for release on April, 23) will no longer ship the long-standing “Software & Updates” graphical tool by default on fresh desktop installs, following a change proposed in Launchpad as bug 2140527.

The adjustment replaces the software-properties-gtk package in the desktop seed with software-properties-common, effectively removing the visible GUI while keeping the underlying repository management tools in place.

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm.
When is the last time you tried Debian, and what version was it?
If I'm recommending it to people, I'd like to be able to warn them about potential hurdles.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A week or so ago, with whatever version was current as of a week or so ago. I was about to install Linux on my kids' mini PCs, fired up the Debian live environment, and noticed that WiFi didn't work. Switched to Kubuntu and the WiFi did work, so proceeded to install with that.

Technically, I suppose it's possible that the actual installed kernel might've worked even though the live environment didn't, but I didn't want to take that chance. Plus, I needed networking in the live environment before install anyway, so I could copy a backup of the factory Win11 install to my other computer, just in case.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hm. Did you see an option for "non-free firmware"? It should be included as an option since Debian major version 11.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's an Intel wifi chip. It shouldn't need non-free firmware!

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 52 minutes ago

You're right about that. I wonder how it can be fixed so that other people don't hit the same issue.