I've used Linux for a long time, but it's only recently that I've felt confident enough that I've started seriously recommending it to non-technical people. Linux has actually come pretty far - set up is still annoying, and some problems are still unnecessarily difficult to solve, but for the most part once you get everything up and running you have a system that just works, and that will keep on working without you having to do much. Compared to modern Windows 10, Gnome's UX is masterful. Would I ever give it up and switch to Windows/Mac? No, never in a million years. I tend to be pretty critical of Linux because I do genuinely believe there's a lot of stuff in Linux that's really bad. That's the analogy, just in case your ignorance was genuine. You have to zoom out, and you'll see: it wasn't his money in the beginning. Yet, quite obviously, it's stupid to look at those actions in isolation. You are not supposed to make employment or acceptance decicions based on sex or race. The analogy is that the last action does fit your everyday definition of something bad: you are not supposed to take a bag of money from someone against their will. That is "taking the money from the robber, and giving it back to the bank". The remedial measures are programs such as the one discussed here, or affirmative action for college admission. That is the bank robbery: these groups were robbed of opportunity. It is rather widely agreed that this is a result of historical injustices, such as racist or sexist policies and habits not allowing women or non-whites to study at colleges, or get certain jobs. To explain: certain groups are underrepresented in sought-after professions, at colleges, etc. (Package names link to the generated metadata xml file). List of packages with successfully generated metadata in Ubuntu Bionic universe (should appear in Ubuntu Software): Here's a list of packages in the Ubuntu Bionic universe repo that have issues (packages with errors are unlikely to appear in Ubuntu Software): However, on some packages the metadata can't be generated, due to an error - either the package has missing info, incorrect formatting, or possibly it's an issue with appstream-generator. The AppStream metadata is generated automatically by running appstream-generator ( ) on Ubuntu's repositories. The Ubuntu Software app (& similar software-center apps, such as GNOME Software, KDE Discover, etc.) only shows distro packages which have valid AppStream metadata: Further, the list of installed applications that it shows is very clearly a subset of those that are actually installed on the system. My assumption for now is that the Ubuntu Software application only shows updates for packages that were installed through it. I had to tweak PP's packaging to get it to appear in the Ubuntu Software app, so I can provide a bit of info about this part of the article: Ubuntu 18.04 is the first release to include my app, PikoPixel (pixel-art editor), in its repository (universe):
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