Hi, On 13 Aug 2024 at 21:22:12, John Edwards wrote: > Hi > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 08:00:34PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany via GLLUG > wrote: > > On 13 Aug 2024 at 16:18:59, John Edwards via GLLUG wrote: > >> ps. I've been tempted a couple of times to post about the ongoing > >> problems with Canonical not updating packages which have already been > >> fixed in Debian, but that would just be a rant and I don't > >> particularly want to start a flame war in hot weather. > > > > which, I would like to ask: which reasons (I'm sure that you have > > reasons!) do you have to use Ubuntu instead of Debian? > <snip> > > (Somebody had to ask, so I'll try to avoid making this too ranty)
That was SUPER interesting. I've been using Debian for years and years (at work and home). Yes, I've been exposed to Ubuntu but not in detail enough to suffer the problems that you mentioned. [...] > ps. As a business, the company I work for did used to pay Canonical > for Ubuntu support many years ago. But they don't any more (lack of > quality and poor response times). I understand that the company that you work for chose Ubuntu, maybe because the Canonical support (BTW, it's possible to find Debian support from different places... but AFAIK not from big companies such Canonical). But, since they don't Canonical support anymore, and besides the cost of changing: are they migrating or installing Debian in new equipment? Or, do they miss something in Debian that doesn't allow it? (some specific software working in a certified way only on Ubuntu, or some hardware that needs propietary software that is Ubuntu specific...). Or, there is the usual (I do the same in some things!) "maybe the alternative is better, but no time to migrate/learn it now just now?". In my free time sometimes (when baby and life allows :-) ) I try to improve Debian. I have a backlog of things, but it's always nice to know what's missing and not "what I'm missing" (on the other hand, in my free time... I sometimes prefer to solve my own problems!) Thanks very much! -- Carles Pina i Estany https://carles.pina.cat | [email protected] | [email protected]
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