As far as I know Ubuntu is using a process to track user usages and maybe personal information, some like google and other websites use cookies to provide you with “more suitable add”. Can someone tell the name of the process and how to stop it ?
Ubuntu does have services for monitoring systems like Landscape that is intended for Enterprise usage, or for a savy individual with many Ubuntu systems and not really for Canonical/Ubuntu Community.
Should Ubuntu users be able to see their system STATS?
Thankfully for my nerves (and no doubt the bods over at Canonical HQ) the majority of Ubuntu users are okay with the stated aims — a bit of anonymous system stat profiling isn’t a major cause for concern, tbh — plus we’re told the metrics will help improve Ubuntu. Even better: Canonical publishes the results of the survey online for anyone to see.
, and sorry, what?! We were the first to report on Ubuntu’s plans to gather system metrics in new installs of 18.04 LTS onwards.
Does ubuntu support uefi?
Ubuntu 20.04 supports UEFI firmware and can boot on PCs with secure boot enabled. So, you can install Ubuntu 20.04 on UEFI systems and Legacy BIOS systems without any problems. Download Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop iso image from the Ubuntu website. Burn the downloaded Ubuntu OS image to a DVD using your favorite DVD burner in Windows.
You might be thinking “How does UEFI Secure Boot work on Ubuntu?”
One way to consider this is on Ubuntu, all pre-built binaries intended to be loaded as part of the boot process, with the exception of the initrd image, are signed by Canonical’s UEFI certificate, which itself is implicitly trusted by being embedded in the shim loader, itself signed by Microsoft.
This begs the question “Can Ubuntu 32-bit be installed in UEFI mode?”
( Ubuntu32bit cannot be easily installed in UEFI mode. This is a problem if 32-bit EFI is the only way your computer can boot, e. g. if you have a modern Intel Atom based laptop . In this case, you will need a complicated work-around .).
How to boot Ubuntu LiveUSB in EFI mode?
The “UEFI: USB” line allows to boot the Ubuntu live. USB in EFI mode. Here is a 2nd example of BIOS, simpler, where the “Boot Mode” parameter allows one to choose the boot mode (“UEFI” or “Legacy”) for all media (hard disk, CD, USB ) at the same time.