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I now routinely install fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools.deb to remove Ubuntu "Advantage". It's an empty package that satisfies the dependencies.

I also remove some of the crap that Ubuntu put in /etc/update-motd.d. From memory 10-help-text, 50-motd-news, 88-esm-announce, 91-contract-ua-esm-status are pointless and annoying.

See https://github.com/Skyedra/UnspamifyUbuntu

Same here, and the fact that it's way too easy to get in "you can't upgrade" -limbo with Ubuntu on servers I haven't touched for a while.

Went back to Debian stable and zero issues. The main reason I went to Ubuntu was that stable Debian used to be veritably ancient. But nowadays I run most of my software in Docker anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Same here, and the fact that it's way too easy to get in "you can't upgrade" -limbo with Ubuntu on servers I haven't touched for a while.

Went back to Debian stable and zero issues.