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The ad bombardment will be the end of non-free software.

Weren't there ads in Ubuntu?

There were suggestions when you used the meta?(windows) key and then typed something in Ubuntu. Windows does this too, I forget who did it first. I went from xp x64 to win 7 ultimate to win10pro and managed to keep the telemetry to a minimum as much as I could.

IIRC the Ubuntu change was pushed in a non-LTS distribution.

As an aside I think 5 year LTS is too few, with the advances made in AI/ML in the last decade five years on os support means that 80% of all the tooling is broken now, at least without spending lots of time backporting or hacking fixes in.

> advances made in AI/ML in the last decade five years on os support means that 80% of all the tooling is broken now, at least without spending lots of time backporting or hacking fixes in.

Ubuntu LTS releases are 2 years apart. You don't have to keep using 5-year old LTSes, do you?

There were, briefly. Hopefully they learnt their lesson from the backlash to that.

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