2023-12-19

So I updated my primary "gaming" machine the other day. It's
basically a 2017-era HP laptop that is just fast enough to play
Factorio (the best game ever made.)

My primary machine that I use is just a bit too old to play Factorio
comfortably (not surprising since it's an HP Elitebook from 2011.)

Anyways, the gaming machine was running an Ubuntu Bionic LTS from
2018. Being away from Ubuntu land for awhile, I didn't realize that
Ubuntu was advertising their paid Ubuntu Pro service for out of
date installations. I was constantly running apt update and seeing
a big list of packages but nothing ever installed.

Well if you look closely, it's actually a big list of packages that
are not supported anymore unless you pay for Ubuntu Pro. Not too
sure how I feel about that actually.

In any case, updating to the 2020 LTS release was no big deal and
mostly makes the whole thing go away...or does it? I do still see
some ubuntu pro messages about packages sometimes.

Not sure what's going on there but although it is annoying, it
isn't annoying enough for me to bother doing anything about it. If
I had to redo my gaming PC again, I wouldn't really choose Ubuntu,
I'd just go with vanilla Debian.