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 <url here>
How do I get rid of it.
Ubuntu never advertised itself so blatantly.
Or, perhaps, consider another distro.
Man… At this point we really should actively be telling people to stay the hell away from Ubuntu. This is some M$Windows levels of sneaky and borderline malicious behavior.
Ubuntu/Canonical is the Microsoft of Linux distros. It’s no surprise they were the choice for WSL.
Ubuntu has been forcing decisions on users and embedding advertisements for a long time.
Examples that immediately come to mind…
- When that Amazon search was embedded into the app launcher search.
- These sorts of self promotions.
- Quietly installing snaps instead of debs when using
apt install
There is literally not a single useful comment here.
You have packages from outside the official main repo, in the universe repo.
You are using a stable Distribution so packages are frozen and need backported security updates.
You dont get them for the optional universe repos, but if you give them a bit of money (or afaik Ubuntu pro is even free for a few devices) then they will also support these 3rd party packages.
It is an optional service, they warn you that you use outdated packages, and offer a solution.
I dont use Ubuntu and Snaps are crap, but this is totally fine.
I got rid of it by signing up for Ubuntu Pro. Doesn’t cost me a thing and keeps the security updates coming in.
