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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by npsimons on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @09:44AM (#25058782)
Fair enough, but I don't put Ubuntu in the same class as Debian, because while they may share many base packages in common, I do seem to remember them patching the kernel more than Debian, and usually stuff that would break my kernel dev too. Hence another reason I'm not on Ubuntu.
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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by freedomben on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:04AM (#25058932)
Agreed. On a related but different note it does seem like Debian gets (unfairly) painted with light generated by Ubuntu. I run Debian on some machines and most of the issues I have with Ubuntu are not problems on Debian (such as: Snap obsession and forcing, Abandoned/system-wrecking PPAs that are hard to recover from, etc)
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