From the that highlighted the infiltration:
I hope the downstream distros are keeping an eye on this and working out a way to cut Canonical out of the supply chain by building directly from Debian or Devuan.
He makes a good point.
I have used Ubuntu for over a decade because of its ease of use improvements over Debian, and its long term support release cycle. Debian has had LTS releases since 2011 and the ease of use issues are less of a problem now.
Maybe it’s time to cut out the hostile Ubuntu middleman and go with Debian.
From the [SoylentNews comment](https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=63757&page=1&cid=1397502) that highlighted the infiltration:
> I hope the downstream distros are keeping an eye on this and working out a way to cut Canonical out of the supply chain by building directly from Debian or Devuan.
He makes a good point.
I have used Ubuntu for over a decade because of its ease of use improvements over Debian, and its long term support release cycle. Debian has had LTS releases since 2011 and the ease of use issues are less of a problem now.
Maybe it’s time to cut out the hostile Ubuntu middleman and go with Debian.
I used LMDE a couple of years ago though I might try it again, it was buggy for me but I might have had the one version that had those bugs so that would be my luck. I think it was LMDE3 but it was a low version number.
I used LMDE a couple of years ago though I might try it again, it was buggy for me but I might have had the one version that had those bugs so that would be my luck. I think it was LMDE3 but it was a low version number.
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