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I've got no problem with this. Between dessert names, big cats, alphabetical alliteration (see what I did there?), and straight up random stuff ("Beefy Miracle"? Really?), I long for the days of sole sequential version numbers.

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Seconded. I know several people who use Fedora. They refer to it by number, not by name. I thing the only possible value of release names is to provide something for bikeshedders to fight over while other people work.

ubuntu codenames are helpful in looking for technical assistance online. '20' isn't a particularly unique term online.

and if you search on 'ubuntu 20'?

Ubuntu has the benefit of peculiar version numbers. But Debian doesn't. I've often searched for "Debian 6 foo" and received results where '6' is a page number or part of a date or someone's handle.

You're actually including those quotation marks in your query, right?

Because if you search for "Debian 6 foo", you should only be seeing results that contain that exact phrase (on Google, anyways).

I google in a variety of manners. I find codenames return a cleaner set of results than version numbers. If I search by codename, I don't need to also add the distribution name. "wheezy" is shorter than "debian 7", and doesn't need quotes.

This being said, I'm not using a distro that discards a version every 6 months, so I don't need to keep a 'continually scrolling' list of codewords in my head.

On the contrary, I find it far simpler to say that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed rather than... actually, I honestly don't know what that one's called. But whatever one comes next, I know it's called 13.04 and... some other arbitrary animal name.

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