Well I haven’t used Ubuntu in quite a while, so my anecdote is probably just way outdated. But now there are so many other good offerings I see no reason to come back.

They let you run a rock solid stable base OS with updated user applications.
Flatpak makes Debian actually great and removes its biggest drawback.

Your entire comment is screaming for OpenSUSE Slowroll.

Have you ever upgraded the Ubuntu laptop? Cause that’s my main gripe with Ubuntu. Server upgrades work, desktop upgrades never did for me.

My hungry cats.

Pioneer Space Sim is my favorite. Fly around the galaxy, trade and do combat, with realistic Newtonian physics.

Mother Abigail

It’s the best King novel in my opinion.
(But I may be biased cause I watched the movies first as a teen and had a crush on one of the characters)

Umpteenth.

With thousands of sci-fi books being written every year, one of them is bound to be an accurate prediction.
And “like now, but on steroids” is basically the definition of the sci-fi genre.

The distro that cured my distro-hopping was Slackware.
It taught me that you can do anything Linux can do in any distro, no matter how obscure, ancient or simplistic.

It also taught me that there is no reward waiting for you on the other side for making your own life difficult.

Went back to Debian knowing I could do it all myself manually, but I don’t have to.

Usually I hate when people ditch an entire distro because they don’t understand or refuse to understand its quirks, but…

Switched to Debian

At least there was a happy ending.

Firefox isn’t in the repos of Debian, so any derivative (derivative (derivative)) distro must deal with that in some way.

You know, usually that difference simply comes from using a search engine directly (so it can store cookies and know your IP address and country) vs. using it via proxy website, where it doesn’t know anything about you.

That was the point where I stopped using it.

They included a global search function which in a default installation sent your search terms to Amazon and returned search results from them.
It also sent them to a web search (with real time results while you typed, including image previews). So it was possible to get shown NSFW images accidentally inside your OS, without opening a browser.
It was just really bad design, and a heavy-handed attempt of monetizing their OS.

Of course that could all be removed with a bash one-liner, but it showed where Canonical was headed,

Cause we can no longer sit back and allow AI infiltration, AI indoctrination, AI subversion and the international AI conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Sounds like some small, private website that simply had any search engine’s input field embedded.

ask.com ?

Bing is also the only search engine I know that plasters their site with images.