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There's nothing in there that interests me. I love it.

I want my OS updates to be boring. Granted I'm using Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) so the Gnome stuff has nothing to do with my use, but the fact that there is nothing there that I have to fix or anticipate or work around or develop a new workflow for is terrific. That's what I love about the Ubuntu family - the last time I had a major upheaval with my desktop system was the year after KDE 4.0 was released... I think over a decade and a half ago. I really have not had to think about my desktop since.

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A key difference is support lifespan, though: 5 years of standard security maintenance for regular Ubuntu[1], and 3 years for Kubuntu[2].

[1] https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NobleNumbat/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu

Yes though you can easily install kde on normal Ubuntu.

snaps and rust coreutils gave me a lot of headache in the beginning.

I was luckily able to avoid snaps during their early years. By the time I was forced to use them, e.g. with Thunderbird, they were actually great at integrating with the desktop files when I wanted, but isolating the program otherwise. I suppose that I dodged that problem.

How so you mean forced? Thunderbird can still be installed by apt just like before and for Debian, though?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412188

Out of curiosity if you want stability over all else, what's the benefit of Kubuntu over the KDE blend of Debian?

I go for the latter but hypothetically:

- Easy access to (newer versions of) some particular package like a device driver in distro repos[0]

- You prefer the Kubuntu default experience more and don't want to customize

- Company policy

[0]: For most packages, ~half the time Debian stable is ahead of Ubuntu LTS as the former is the base of the latter. Currently latest Ubuntu LTS 24.04 is still based on Debian oldstable. It will catch up with 26.04, until next Debian stable release. Sometimes, though, Ubuntu do their own backports or releases where Debian stable does not.

I migrated my home machine from Debian to Kubuntu a few years ago, I don't remember why )) I think that it had something to do with the installer.

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