<story><title>Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tajen</author><text>&amp;gt; now with 100% less &amp;quot;spyware&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Canonical dug itself an even deeper hole when it went after [...] FixUbuntu.com for trademark violations.&lt;p&gt;1. I find it both positive and daunting that the first section of this press release is &amp;quot;They&amp;#x27;re not being assholes this time&amp;quot;. Linux systems should be the guardians of nonspying&amp;#x2F;noncloud systems.&lt;p&gt;2. It&amp;#x27;s excellent they have a theme on stability. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many customers it costs them every year. I personally when to Mac after my second Ubuntu upgrade (1st: the mouse, 2nd: the network).&lt;p&gt;3. I&amp;#x27;d pay $200&amp;#x2F;yr for a free OS on a developer machine which just works, where I don&amp;#x27;t even &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; whether I&amp;#x27;m running Gnome, Unity or KDE. I also want UX improvements (the Amazon search) to be well-UX tested (or rejected) before publication. Something like elementary.io, without the installation errors (yeah I&amp;#x27;ve tried), and with on-the-phone magicians if there&amp;#x27;s a problem. Something like Mac OS X, but paid. I hope they&amp;#x27;ll do it one day, I wonder whether there&amp;#x27;s enough customers for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>Send your $200&amp;#x2F;yr to the free OS that comes the closest to &amp;quot;just works&amp;quot; for you, even if you don&amp;#x27;t use it. If everyone did that, our free OSes would be far better than any other alternative.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tajen</author><text>&amp;gt; now with 100% less &amp;quot;spyware&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Canonical dug itself an even deeper hole when it went after [...] FixUbuntu.com for trademark violations.&lt;p&gt;1. I find it both positive and daunting that the first section of this press release is &amp;quot;They&amp;#x27;re not being assholes this time&amp;quot;. Linux systems should be the guardians of nonspying&amp;#x2F;noncloud systems.&lt;p&gt;2. It&amp;#x27;s excellent they have a theme on stability. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many customers it costs them every year. I personally when to Mac after my second Ubuntu upgrade (1st: the mouse, 2nd: the network).&lt;p&gt;3. I&amp;#x27;d pay $200&amp;#x2F;yr for a free OS on a developer machine which just works, where I don&amp;#x27;t even &lt;i&gt;know&lt;/i&gt; whether I&amp;#x27;m running Gnome, Unity or KDE. I also want UX improvements (the Amazon search) to be well-UX tested (or rejected) before publication. Something like elementary.io, without the installation errors (yeah I&amp;#x27;ve tried), and with on-the-phone magicians if there&amp;#x27;s a problem. Something like Mac OS X, but paid. I hope they&amp;#x27;ll do it one day, I wonder whether there&amp;#x27;s enough customers for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teekert</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t have to pay anyone for something that just works, take that 200$&amp;#x2F;yr and pay it to yourself as you investigate if your hardware is well supported by Linux.&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, go for System76 or Entroware hardware. That hardware ships with Linux.</text></comment>