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this never happened before, it's also not happening ion my backup computer (same OS, xubuntu 24.04).

Message: get more security updates through ubuntu pro with esm-apps enabled, learn more about ubuntu pro

How do I get rid of it.

Ubuntu never advertised itself so blatantly.

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[–] yala@discuss.online 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, would it be fair to say that their packages suck and they're desperately fundraising money through ads in hopes of fixing it?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. You are using a stable Distro. This is how stable distros work.

If you want upstream updates for all packages, use a rolling or semi-rolling release like Fedora, Arch, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, etc.

[–] yala@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But Debian does get security updates backported, right? Like, is Ubuntu actively preventing you from getting these?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I dont know how many packages they share but this seems very unrealistic.

Debian and Ubuntu have different release schedukes and package versions.

[–] yala@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago

True. But Debian Testing and Unstable do exist. Which should be primary candidates for where Ubuntu gets their packages.