> I reported the issue and eventually it got resolved (no idea how I'm afraid), but whatever the issue for me it must have been an edge case as it wasn't widely

> I reported the issue and eventually it got resolved (no idea how I'm afraid), but whatever the issue for me it must have been an edge case as it wasn't widely reported. Recently there have been major regressions in the kernel due to DRM atomic modesetting with bug reports with many confirmations and zero action from the maintainers while not being able to go past kernel 4.1 which is fortunately one of the long-term branches. 4.2 is also okay but there's no 4.2 lts branch. I never used Ubuntu as my workstation OS, so I cannot talk about their QA standards or how well it would have worked for me, but I've observed sloppiness in their packaging and integration work on others' systems. I mean, it's also important to remember that the advertised number of Ubuntu packages is not truthful if you're honest, because it's a snapshot of Debian's repositories and thus anything in Universe is probably unmaintained when compared to the repository in Debian. That means, the curated set of packages is quite small in comparison. I hope the situation improved in the last years.