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Is Ubuntu Treating Its Users as If They Can’t Be Trusted?
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this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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I usually use [K]ubuntu because I always try to install Debian first, but it ships with kernels so outdated that it rarely "just works" on the not-particularly-weird hardware I throw at it. That's understandable when it's missing drivers for my AMD 9070 XT GPU on launch day, but not so much when it's missing drivers for the Intel AX101 wifi chipset that got released 3.5 years before. (I've also experienced weird installation failures with Debian related to the partitioning and/or bootloader, but I don't remember the details of those right now. Point is, Ubuntu is -- unfortunately -- more reliable to install without tweaking or troubleshooting, in my experience.)
Hmm.
When is the last time you tried Debian, and what version was it?
If I'm recommending it to people, I'd like to be able to warn them about potential hurdles.
Then Fedora may be an option for you. They have a KDE spin.
Besides that, Debian is my default distro nowadays; everything just works for me.
I was using Gentoo previously for many years, because I didn't require out-of-the-box back then.
I'm too lazy and set in my ways to switch away from
apt.(I also used Gentoo, many years ago when I could actually be bothered.)
I am an apt boi as well, but I recently switched to Fedora KDE spin. God has it been a breath of fresh air to have decently updated packages WITH stability on my desktop and laptop.
I'm still Debian all the way for server and "LTS" computers, like my HTPC, but Fedora is killing it overall.