Canonical drops the Software & Updates tool from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS defaults, citing usability and maintenance concerns.

Ubuntu has taken another step that, honestly, leaves me scratching my head. While most distributions try to offer as many convenient GUI tools as possible to help users manage every part of their system, Ubuntu… apparently sees things a bit differently.

I say this because Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (scheduled for release on April, 23) will no longer ship the long-standing “Software & Updates” graphical tool by default on fresh desktop installs, following a change proposed in Launchpad as bug 2140527.

The adjustment replaces the software-properties-gtk package in the desktop seed with software-properties-common, effectively removing the visible GUI while keeping the underlying repository management tools in place.

  • Chakravanti@monero.townEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    It’s corporate parasite for corporate parasites.

    In and of itself as such, it’s not a bad thing but if you’re a person, don’t touch it. You should easily see why.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      15 hours ago

      It’s corporate parasite for corporate parasites.

      I like how you phrased it. And it explains well why Canonical is so detached from the userbase, or doesn’t care about fragmentation — it’s simply that its host target audience is other parasites also corporate.