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.
@cm0002 Meh, every distro has its issues, and I don’t think the arguments for its removal are insane, although I would prefer it was kept and fixed. I think the only thing I’ve ever tweaked on that thing are the security and version update settings. Wonder what #ubuntu will set the defaults to.