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Comment by baggy_trough | Hacker News Reader

Debian is, in every way that I know, superior to Ubuntu.

  - no snap nonsense where you can't turn off upgrades
  - stays close to upstream LTS kernels
  - does not carry around some ridiculous kernel patch set
  - no irritating adware on login

I switched after the aforementioned patch set broke containers and destroyed my server instance a couple years ago. Apparently nobody bothered to check containers before releasing the kernel.

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Why are you lying so much?

>no snap nonsense where you can't turn off upgrades

You can disable AND uninstall snap entirely. You can also disable automatic update of the specific snaps you have installed.

>stays close to upstream LTS kernels

Same as Ubuntu, which uses 7.3 on its latest release as of today.

>does not carry around some ridiculous kernel patch set

Custom kernel patches for hardware compatibility is a very good thing, and why Ubuntu works on a lot of machines compared to other distros.

>no irritating adware on login

There is not a single ad on login, and even after. You are an ugly liar.

All true as of when I quit Ubuntu a couple years ago. Your interpersonal skills need work.

There is an attempt to up-sell you on Ubuntu Pro on install, and again if you install the desktop separately.

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