So a new major version of Debian has been released, and now I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version. I don’t want to rush to conclusions like “Ubuntu has money for better quality assurance”. I can easily come up with explanations for why these statistics can be skewed, like “Ubuntu-loving plebeians do not come to complain to elite Lemmy users about their puny problems”. I’m curious what you think?

  • cevn@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Ive had Ubuntu shit itself 6 different times after upgrade. People still use ubuntu??

    • arty@feddit.orgOP
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      2 days ago

      I had smooth sailing with Ubuntu for many years, but I don’t judge other people’s choices

      • cevn@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I would bet that any upgrade bug that happens in Debian is just as likely, if not more, to happen in Ubuntu. The most frequent issue which happened to me was not enough space on the boot partition for the new kernel which somehow never got figured out in a seamless manner.

        You also wont get posts when people’s upgrades go well. So even if 99.99% upgrade fine, the .01% are going to go and complain since they dont have the experience to fix things themselves.