Yeah they did wonders for my Android phone

Interestingly, Mint strips away several things that Ubuntu enforces, like their Gnome setup and Snaps entirely, removing most of the "value" added by Canonical.
More interestingly is that Linux Mint offers a Debian version, sidestepping Ubuntu completely.

It's fine if you like Ubuntu's default Gnome setup. That's the point of having multiple distros. It's fine if you like Snaps. It's not fine to force everyone into your ecosystem or enforce your choices on others. If you don't think that both of those things are true of Canonical, go try to install the .deb version of Firefox.

Debian has its own kernel, and security team, in fact as Ubuntu is downstream of Debian they get the full benefit of Debian's security patches (yes Canonical maintains their own kernel, but the vast majority of other packages are pulled from Debian's repositories), fwupd isn't unique to Ubuntu, KDE has been combining update managers into Discover for ages, not everybody likes Gnome.
You're saying "replicate" like these are all things Ubuntu did first and everyone else is copying them. That's ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.

I think you overestimate your ability to communicate irony in text-only media.

I've been using it for many years and I have no idea who Chris Titus is.
There's no reason to use Ubuntu over Debian, especially since Bookworm included non-free firmware in installation media by default.

Which part's a joke? I can't tell which of you think you're being funny.

The outcome was unfortunate (no more games ever I guess??) but Tim Schafer's announcement video was at least self-aware and funny.
"I always wanted to stay independent and free. But then I thought: what if I had a lot of money".

Oh Carl's still there. In perpetual agony.

Remember when eVGA decided they would rather leave the market entirely than spend one more day working with Nvidia?

Reddit keeps asking me to use their app and they are very clearly making the mobile browser version worse and worse.
Just last week I couldn't view a thread I found on Google without signing in. It wasn't adult content and didn't require verifying my age. The reason given was very vague and had something to do with the content not being vetted (despite being old).

The Reddit garden wall is already here and is currently being rolled out. For your own good, of course.

Why do you have braces? Are you saying god made a mistake?

sudo rm -fr /* is short for sudo rm --for-real /*