Not surprising, they want some of that RHEL money. When you choose a Corporate distribution, enshittification is usually what you get…
You’ll get 5 free instances if you get a subscription, but that kind of messes with the whole “just install Ubuntu from a USB key and use it with no hassle” workflow many Ubuntu users used to love.
I subscribed to pro with a throwaway email so I’m okay with it generally speaking.
But 5 instances is not enough, not even for home personal use. If you’re running VMs for other tasks, you quickly hit this limit.
- Ubuntu desktop
- kubuntu VM for yarr
- xubuntu VM for testing questionable programs
- Ubuntu on raspberry pi
- Ubuntu in AWS
I donate to Ubuntu annually but I’m at the point of foregoing that donation if I need to subscribe to their subscription model.
Man I’m kinda glad I moved on from Ubuntu. I used to like it, but my interest fell a while back and I can’t even really explain why.
Any sysadmins here to suggest an alternative server distro? We’ve been installing Ubuntu in most of our VMs at our company, and while I realize it’s a hassle to switch them all, I kinda want to at least have a discussion about it.
We’ve had Debian on some machines, and while it’s stable, packages tend to be too old for some operations. Maybe Sid…
I just realized that I’m getting advertisement for Ubuntu Pro where it said it will give me more security patches when I use apt update. I’m using PopOs. Which really irritated me.
