Comment by tasuki
3 years ago
> "I'm not contacting the internet unless you ask me to"
I think there kind of is? Like, most Linux distros actually?
Yes, Ubuntu has snaps which try to talk to the internet and autoupdate, and yes this is absolutely terrible. Yes, sometimes a distro might notify you there are updates available. Yes, sometimes a distro talks to a ntp server to sync the time. But, generally, I don't feel internet usage is inflicted on me, I inflict it on myself.
In what ways which bother you does your Linux distro contact the internet without asking?
Ubuntu also has services like fwupd and unattended-upgrades that are configured by default to run periodically without asking the user. I do not know if there are any others.
Fortunately, as long as the user knows about them, they are fairly straightforward to mask with systemctl.
For people like me, who like having complete control and knowledge of everything their machine is doing, Arch GNU/Linux a good choice.
And then you run Firefox and it starts calling home all by itself. That one still bugs me.