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.

  • poinck@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    Then Fedora may be an option for you. They have a KDE spin.

    Besides that, Debian is my default distro nowadays; everything just works for me.

    I was using Gentoo previously for many years, because I didn’t require out-of-the-box back then.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      I’m too lazy and set in my ways to switch away from apt.

      (I also used Gentoo, many years ago when I could actually be bothered.)

      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        I am an apt boi as well, but I recently switched to Fedora KDE spin. God has it been a breath of fresh air to have decently updated packages WITH stability on my desktop and laptop.

        I’m still Debian all the way for server and “LTS” computers, like my HTPC, but Fedora is killing it overall.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          I mean, Kubuntu has “decently updated packages WITH stability,” too. It just has Snap that annoys me, but that probably annoys me less than command 'apt' not found would.