When I'm paying for an official Azure version of Ubuntu on Azure, I darn well expect there will be a closer support relationship than the free desktop version.
Okay, but maybe other people don't want that if it entails their information being shared with a company they haven't initiated a business relationship with?
> haven't initiated a business relationship
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To say that you have no business relationship with Canonical while paying Canonical to use Canonical software with official Canonical technical support is absurd to the highest degree.
You deciding to resurrect the comment because you happened to see it before I deleted it is really not OK. It's the exact kind of toxic hostile, creepy interaction I was trying to avoid from you by deleting the comment!
I thought your comment was interesting and merited a reply for others to see and discuss. But I see you disagree so I've removed the content of my reply.
Feel free to flag any comments you find particularly toxic or hostile. You can do that by clicking on the timestamp of the comment and clicking the `flag` link.
Or even better, let me know (like you have done so here). I can't improve myself if I don't know there's a problem.
Posting something and deleting it after it has been seen is basically gaslighting. Imagine the kinds of harassment people could get away with if they said rude things to coworkers on chat, then edited the messages to appear benign after the coworker responded to their hostility.
That is why people quote the text of comments to which they want to reply.
Furthermore is strenuous disagreement now toxic and hostile?
Wouldn't it be more trivial to say I do not wish to engage and leave it at that? Ironically calling someone toxic hostile and creepy is... pretty toxic.
I think someone has the right to change their mind about something they've said. That's why I edited my comment to remove it.
> Furthermore is strenuous disagreement now toxic and hostile?
I don't think so. But I know that I sometimes get passionate about my opinions. I welcome someone's input to keep me friendly.
> Wouldn't it be more trivial to say I do not wish to engage and leave it at that? Ironically calling someone toxic hostile and creepy is... pretty toxic.
I would like to think better than that. I think it was good of @ojnabieoot to let me know that they thought I'd wronged them.
Some people can feel very anxious or awkward to conversation for very good reasons. They can state opinions and then choose to retract their opinions for any reason -- even if the opinion is held but they choose to remove themselves from the conversation. I think that's a good thing to discuss but this isn't the venue to.
How? Why? If it's different in any meaningful way from just clicking "next" on the installer then it's no longer Ubuntu, and certainly not Canonical Ubuntu, that's pre-installed. It's become, at best, Microsoft-Ubuntu-Because-Microsoft-Added-Telemetry-For-Azure. Or it's Canoncical-Ubuntu-Configured-By-Microsoft-With-Azure-CLI-Preinstalled.
It's not "Ubuntu" any more.