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Is Ubuntu Treating Its Users as If They Can’t Be Trusted? (linuxiac.com)
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Ubuntu has taken another step that, honestly, leaves me scratching my head. While most distributions try to offer as many convenient GUI tools as possible to help users manage every part of their system, Ubuntu… apparently sees things a bit differently.

I say this because Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (scheduled for release on April, 23) will no longer ship the long-standing “Software & Updates” graphical tool by default on fresh desktop installs, following a change proposed in Launchpad as bug 2140527.

The adjustment replaces the software-properties-gtk package in the desktop seed with software-properties-common, effectively removing the visible GUI while keeping the underlying repository management tools in place.

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[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

At this point I'm starting to wonder if Canonical is in the Epstein files.