Yeah I know that feeling man - we've got a heap of devs and if one of them is complaining about something really silly that you shouldn't have to worry about in 2015 - it's almost always Ubuntu - Ubuntu's who ecosystem seems 'hacky' - where as Debian - We now run on hundreds and hundreds of our servers - it's far more up to date (with Backports) then RHEL based servers, more stable and less 'wtf' than Ubuntu and security updates are released lightning quick - my only gripe with Debian is the lack of decent SELinux policies by default.