Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism

It seems some users aren’t happy that there’s (currently) no way to disable Ubuntu Pro package updates from showing in the Software Updater tool in Ubuntu LTS releases. Last year, Canonical updated update-manager (aka Software Updater) to display a list of Ubuntu Pro package updates available for user systems regardless of whether Ubuntu Pro is enabled or not (and if it’s not, they can’t install them). Prior, only users who explicitly opted-in to Ubuntu Pro would see corresponding package updates available for their systems. Now, everyone sees them. And the inability to opt-out of being asked to opt-in is proving […]

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