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bombolo

I use debian and i get a steady stream of updates!

And I also don't get microsoft bugging me every day to install windows 11.

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I am on Ubuntu and it constantly bugs me to upgrade:

> New release '20.04.5 LTS' available. > Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

At least it doesn't say you must buy a new computer to update :)

Well on my older 4770 PC, Windows doesn't bug me to upgrade to 11, since it knows it can't.

It bugs me anyway where it can't (I have a couple of games that refuse running on linux)

Despite being pretty similar under the hood, Ubuntu and Debian seem very different in their approach to this kind of thing.

The Debian package manager telemetry is opt in, for example. Whereas iirc Ubuntu used to bundle an Amazon store in their default release? And who could forget that guy who got a cold call "hey, we saw you spun up a Ubuntu VM in Azure. Want to buy support?"

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