Comment by m463

note that ubuntu is trending towards the bad behavior that windows and macos are trying to normalize.

it talks to the mothership behind the scenes, it forces updates, and although the package manager should be your friend, they have sort of weaponized it so you can't uninstall their packages easily.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1434512/how-to-get-rid-of-ub...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/135540/what-is-the-whoopsie-...