[15:54] <Exe> Hi guys! Thanks for being there. Gotta a question, of course.
[15:55] <Exe> Does that Ubuntu's famous spyware affects Ubuntu Studio too? Sorry, i may guess that it has been already asked. But i concerned about it. Thank you in advanced.
[16:00] <jojo[m]> exe: The first part of the sentence is unclear to me. Please rephrase.
[16:06] <Exe> Sorry for my English. I have read about that Ubuntu-Canonical's spyware and all that stuff. What about UbuntuStudio?
[16:07] <Eickmeyer> Exe: Don't believe the FUD. If you're talking about the Amazon stuff, that was gone years ago from main Ubuntu and has never affected Ubuntu Studio since it was tied to the Unity desktop environment.
[16:09] <Eickmeyer> Also, that has nothing to do with technical support, so the question is off-topic for this channel.
[16:10] <jojo[m]> I don't know and have not heard about Spyware by Canonical and what you are exactely referreing to, but one thing I know about Ubuntu it's derivates is that the core of the operating system and core software packages is pretty much, well actually, exactely the same. So if your concern is true than probably in this case Ubuntu is equal to Ubuntustudio - it is kind of a special version of the same operating system. At
[16:10] <jojo[m]> least that's how I would put it. correct me if I am wrong. :-))
[16:10] <jojo[m]>  * I don't know and have not heard about Spyware by Canonical and what you are exactely referreing to, but one thing I know about Ubuntu and its derivates is that the core of the operating system and core software packages is pretty much, well actually, exactely the same. So if your concern is true than probably in this case Ubuntu is equal to Ubuntustudio - it is kind of a special version of the same operating
[16:10] <jojo[m]> system. At least that's how I would put it. correct me if I am wrong. :-))
[16:12] <Eickmeyer> Again, this is off-topic. Please take this discussion elsewhere.
[16:13] <jojo[m]> eickmeyer: probably not tech support, but I got curious about the topic now and at least would like to ask exe where he has this weird spyware information from? Where is a place we could discuss this? Sorry I am new here (is there a general ubuntu-off-topic-ramble-channel ? thanks a ton!
[16:14] <Eickmeyer> jojo[m]: For you it would be #ubuntu-studio-offtopic:matrix.org (which should point to the Ubuntu Studio Cafe), and for Exe it would be #ubuntustudio-offtopic.
[16:14] <jojo[m]> eickmeyer: thanks a lot!
[16:49] <Exe> Thanks jojo and Eickmeyer! I'm going to that channel so i don't bother you. Cya
[20:46] <Sir> Hi guys! Thanks for being there! Gotta question about propietary/closed-source software in Ubuntu Studio. Are there? Are they preinstalled?  Where do i get info about that? The doubt is because of privacy concerns. I don't care about being free, but open. Thanks!
[20:46] <Maik> https://ubuntustudio.org/about-ubuntustudio/
[20:48] <Maik> and afaik there's no propietary/closed-source software included by default. None of the Ubuntu flavors include them.
[20:50] <Eickmeyer> No Ubuntu flavors are allowed to carry proprietary/closed-source software by default.
[20:52] <Sir> Ok! Thanks, i've read the official site about info. But it doesn't specify. For example, i've heard that there IS some propietary software. For example the NVIDIA drivers. But, Chris TItus for example, talk about them, and acknowledged that it was fine that there was *some* propietary software in Ubuntu. But my doubt was how much is that *some"
[20:52] <Sir> know what i mean?
[20:59] <Eickmeyer> It's in the repos (multiverse), but not installed by default. Nvidia is an exception, but not in Ubuntu Studio by default (mostly because I haven't figured it out yet).
[21:00]  * Eickmeyer is getting sick of these "proprietary" and "spyware" questions
[21:03] <Sir> Ok Eickmeyer. Thanks for the answer.
[21:05] <Sir> But, TBH, in my opinion "the Open Source vs Spyware/Propietary Software" stuff is the reason of existence of Linux.
[21:08] <Maik> Sir: you want open source only? Go Trisquel which is a 100% libre Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.
[21:08] <Maik> with that we're going offtopic here