This is interesting. Link: Adios! Says Ubuntu to The Software and Updates Tool
it could be but I have doubt... anyway it will be possible to install it manually...
installing it takes just one command:
sudo apt install software-properties-gtk
Unfortunately, for Ubuntu I understand the logic. They want to be the Microsoft of the Linux space at this point, and that means taking away as much control from the user as possible. And while yes, you can still install the GUI application for now, it wouldn't surprise me if it slowly dissapears over time, and you're left running things manually either via terminal or other means to edit those settings
(which is surely not reminiscent of any other OS that more people are starting to avoid, no siree Bob).
That being said, it also has always driven me insane that they call it "Software and Updates" to the end user. So if you search "Update", the search would FREQUENTLY get confused between actually checking for updates, and opening that application. Why it couldn't have been named something more apt for its use, and to help avoid confusion... I've got no idea. My tinfoil hat me could say its been like that intentionally so they could say now/later that it had to be removed to remove said confusion they already made.
But the more real answer is simply no one wanted to bother most likely.
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Removing without replacing - this means that it is not about what they say it is about.
And what users will need to do, in Ubuntu 26.04 is either add it back or use the terminal instead of the GUI.
I find it ironically delicious.
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It's really frightening how more and more features that give users choices are gradually being removed from GUI which makes it more difficult to use Ubuntu based Distributions and configure custom settings.
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Debian 13 Gnome doesn't ship it anymore, too. There all Updates run over Gnome Software. And in Ubuntu I guess this will run over the ... has this a Name ... ''App Store'' Thing.
It is interesting that none of my alternative OS's I prefer have Gnome missing.
This is the point. People need to look past stuff like, "oh, it's not a big deal; no one uses it anyway," and understand better what taking away things like this means for their own freedom in how they use software, etc. Only when they're in a pickle do they go, "oh, no." And by then, it's too late. Shortsightedness is gonna kill us all.
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I mean, it kind of is a big deal.
On this forum, we run into:
"Don't give me terminal commands."
So, we reply to open Software & Updates - this is used on these forums, a lot. It being missing would be a very big deal for us.
From advising how to switch to Main Server, to managing repos.
Are the higher ups at Canonical so out of touch with their user base as to resemble Blizzard Entertainment?
This is not just unpopular or debatable, no... It is utterly absurd.
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