This right here is why I consider Ubuntu the "microsoft of Linux"
Ubuntu is a terrible excuse for a server OS, and ads have no place in tools like apt. Literally taking an upstream tool from Debian and adding ads to it.
Regardless of any amount of insistence to the contrary, #Canonical is becoming enshittified. They just have a little bit of self-awareness -- that's the only reason why it isn't more extreme.
As a proud member of the open source community since 1995, as being part of the OSS revolution as a #RedHat, #Canonical and #SuSE employee, with regrets I have to admit @geerlingguy is not totally wrong:
'"Allen Ärgernissen über die noch immer bruchstückhaft wirkenden Umbauten beim Paketmanagement zum Trotz: Ubuntu 24.04 präsentiert sich im Großen und Ganzen als ein durchaus gelungenes Desktop-System. "'
Ich habe einen ersten Blick auf #Ubuntu 24.04 LTS geworfen. Was ist neu? Was gefällt mir? Und warum das Release ein grosser Schritt für eingeschränkte Personen ist? Mehr dazu in meinem Blog:
A #Canonical employee reported some out-of-tree code broke after something internal was renamed recently in #Linux 5.15.y – and as expected was told this is no regression at all, as the #LinuxKernel does not have a binary kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface:
Christoph Hellwig in a reply also wrote: "given that Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
2/ "Given that #Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
If you wonder what this statement from esteemed #Linux developer Christoph Hellwig is about:
I'm not 100% sure, but I expect it's either the bundling of #Nvidia's proprietary kernel graphics driver module or the inclusion of the #openZFS#LinuxKernel modules in #Ubuntu - or more likely both.
So, I had this thread a (few?) year(s) ago or so about how I can no longer recommend Ubuntu for new Linux users, that got a bit of traction.
Now I really have to insist that you don't either! And again Snap is the biggest part of it. Canonical is putting their users in danger, this is very much not ok!