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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm too lazy and set in my ways to switch away from apt.

(I also used Gentoo, many years ago when I could actually be bothered.)

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

I am an apt boi as well, but I recently switched to Fedora KDE spin. God has it been a breath of fresh air to have decently updated packages WITH stability on my desktop and laptop.

I'm still Debian all the way for server and "LTS" computers, like my HTPC, but Fedora is killing it overall.