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BTW keep in mind this is !linuxmemes@lemmy.world and there's a certain lightness in the robustness of arguments that goes with it. So on a more serious note, you speak of Ubuntu as having no real benefit over Debian. While I love Debian, using the Ubuntu version of Debian, I get 10 years of security support for free (for up to 5 machines). This is objectively a real benefit for anyone that doesn't plan to upgrade every two years compared to Debian. You're right in principle about corporate distros not being your friend, however Canonical isn't an IBM-owned, publicly traded corporation. Yet.
It may be shocking to you, but I'm actually aware that this isn't all super serious, and I'm also being light with the robustness of my arguments. Who knew, right? That being said, Debian releases are supported for five years, not two. Ubuntu also releases a new LTS version every two years. I suppose if for some reason you thought it was still a good idea to be on Ubuntu 14.04 that'd technically be a benefit, but the implication of this thread seems to be that we're talking about desktop distros. That's certainly what I've been talking about. If you're seriously still running Ubuntu 14.04 on your home computer you're way more of a niche contrarian edge case than Arch users.