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I would need to reinstall OS on my laptop and deal with all time-consuming migration stuff for everything that changed and to configure Debian where it is doing weird things

> What is Ubuntu offering that Debian doesn't provide?

I have it right now at zero additional effort

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This is now trivial with agentic tooling. I recently used a separate laptop and VM over a weekend with an agent to complete a full migration. Cost is hours and a dollar in tokens.

I am not trusting LLM to let them handle backups and my critical infrastructure.

And I am not letting LLM to send contents of my private files to LLM providers.

Define these terms because it is trivial to mitigate.

LLM can define backup job, write scripts and configs.

AI connects to blank system, builds out config and then creates scripts to run rsync.

The way some people fear AI is not realizing that it is doing the operations.

> LLM can define backup job, write scripts and configs.

I still consider necessary to test and understand my backup system, so it will take nonzero time.

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