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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by PetahNZ on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:15PM (#34043518)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by bombolo on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:20PM (#34043568)
At least it doesn't say you must buy a new computer to update :)
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by PetahNZ on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:50PM (#34043940)
Well on my older 4770 PC, Windows doesn't bug me to upgrade to 11, since it knows it can't.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by bombolo on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:35PM (#34044603)
It bugs me anyway where it can't (I have a couple of games that refuse running on linux)
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by ahepp on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:48PM (#34044862)
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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