I'm genuinely curious what exactly is "wrong"?

It's a theme website. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and even Cinnamon has one...why is this bad?

I wish I could up-vote more than once...

In a similar vein, Evelyn Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once... She may not start out badass, but oh boy does that change

They are. Which is why these people go for FWB...if they can even get that

You know, I had never noticed this correlation until you brought it up, but it's kind of sad how accurate it is...

It's funny you mention this, because a few days ago I went to my local market to grab milk, and the regular milk was more expensive that the plant-based milk...never thought I'd see this day in the US!

So something I just thought of, and I'm surprised nobody brought up (well, I guess some did indirectly, it just wasn't obvious to me): A major benefit of basing off of Ubuntu is more up-to-date hardware support. While it's true that Debian now supports non-free firmware by default, that doesn't mean that it will be recent.

Debian support for hardware is truly impressive, but it ultimately lags behind because Debian prioritizes stability over new features. This is why routine Debian updates only cover severe bugs and security issues, and from what I can tell that also is the case for hardware support and the kernel.

Ubuntu tries to keep in step with new hardware releases, which makes much more sense for power users like engineers, developers and gamers, all of which seem to be key consumers of System76 hardware. Basing off of Ubuntu makes it easier to satisfy that clientele. I imagine it also makes submitting upstream fixes for hardware-related packages easier.

Interesting two cents! Your line of reasoning is pretty thorough, and I think your educated guesses are fairly sounds! Thanks for contributing! I agree, while switching to Debian as a base would certainly be a lot of work, System76 has definitely gone above and beyond in far more complex ways, particularly with their COSMIC DE effort.

Oh, absolutely. Regardless of the underlying distro, COSMIC is set to be an epic DE experience.

See, this was my thought as well. Canonical seems to be going the way of RedHat, and I understand that they need to turn a profit, but my understanding is also that most of their money comes from server support. Not really sure how much they can squeeze out of Desktop users, but I guess that's what snaps are for...

So I kind of get this, but from what I can understand it's more tedious from a DevOps perspective to switch package management systems than to just switch to repositories that target older software versions. Hence why I'm curious as to whether simply basing off of Debian-testing like Ubuntu does is the most likely outcome.

As for NVIDIA support, I was playing around with the latest Debian release and almost immediately noticed that the NVIDIA proprietary packages were available by default. In other words, Debian seems to be just as inclined to support an NVIDIA setup as Ubuntu does out of the box now.

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