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

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.

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.

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