This is the “ad”. Personally, I don’t think a little plug like this is worth any kind of fuss. If it were a real ad or something, then yea I would get it.
This. Any unsollicited communication that’s meant to make you investigate or buy a commercial product is an advertisement. That’s all. Is it less intrusive than the TikTok ad in Windows start menu, I think it may be, but it’s still an advertisement, by definition.
As I mentioned in another comment, it’s still a commercial offering, that happens to have a free tier. Would we be okay with a YouTube link in the same spot?
Honestly, it doesn’t bother me that much. It’s more that you can see a more and more corporate-y trend in Canonical’s decision making, which I personally don’t really care for. If I used Ubuntu with the default shell I’d probably just override the MOTD and go on with my life.
I see a lot of people comment that this isn’t that bad and that it might even be acceptable, and that’s exactly the problem here: it’s a gateway drug and if we normalise this, Canonical will keep pushing the limits of what they can pull off before it’s not acceptable anymore, and that sounds when it’s too late.
This is the “ad”. Personally, I don’t think a little plug like this is worth any kind of fuss. If it were a real ad or something, then yea I would get it.
An ad is an ad and this definitely is an ad. This is the kind of shit that made me quit Windows and it would make me quit Ubuntu if I was using it.
This. Any unsollicited communication that’s meant to make you investigate or buy a commercial product is an advertisement. That’s all. Is it less intrusive than the TikTok ad in Windows start menu, I think it may be, but it’s still an advertisement, by definition.
For me it is, I would’ve never ever expected an ad on cli, on a local install, on my machine.
Logged into an ec2 and see an advert? Sure. But not on my own shit. It’s a true “ah fuck I can’t believe you’ve done this” factor.
Ubuntu Pro seems to be free for regular users (on up to five machines).
Would bother me a lot more if it wasn’t a free service. Now it’s ehh
As I mentioned in another comment, it’s still a commercial offering, that happens to have a free tier. Would we be okay with a YouTube link in the same spot?
Honestly, it doesn’t bother me that much. It’s more that you can see a more and more corporate-y trend in Canonical’s decision making, which I personally don’t really care for. If I used Ubuntu with the default shell I’d probably just override the MOTD and go on with my life.
Like, promoting Youtube or just a link to a Youtube video promoting Ubuntu Pro or what do you mean?
A link promoting any other commercial product with a free tier. Like AWS, or YouTube.
Different strokes and all that. I’m personally ok with the way this is done, but I can also see why people wouldn’t like it at all
While I’m not bothered by this in particular, like other people have said, it feels like the top of a very slippery slope that I would be bothered by
That’s pretty much how I feel about it. This specific method is alright by me, but it could very easily become something intrusive.
Yeah, plus given you can get pro for free it really seems more like a announcement than an ad. Slippery slope though.
What’s an ad if not a commercial announcement?
I guess it doesn’t seem as much of an ad if it’s something free they’re promoting. As it would be for most users.
It’s a commercial offering with a free tier.
Yes and most users would be in the free tier
So it’s still an ad to a product, or it’s not?
I’ve been getting ads like these for years on my ubuntu server.
n additional security updates can be applied with ESM Apps. Learn more about enabling ESM Apps service at https://ubuntu.com/esmThis is on a machine running 20.04. Never bothered me. All my other machines are Debian now, and at some point I’ll switch that one too.
It is a real ad though…
this plus the snap crap they’ve been doing was enough for me to switch to Debian
I went through the entire cycle.
And finally I’m at Debian.
You missed Slackware
And he still hasn’t arrived at Gentoo.
He’s still compiling
I see a lot of people comment that this isn’t that bad and that it might even be acceptable, and that’s exactly the problem here: it’s a gateway drug and if we normalise this, Canonical will keep pushing the limits of what they can pull off before it’s not acceptable anymore, and that sounds when it’s too late.
I agree that I wouldnt call that an ad, but it’s a pretty distasteful plug