Ubuntu is based on Debian, but /is/ not Debian It's worth noting that Canonical also has a pretty well-known history of being a "bad player" in the wider commu

Ubuntu is based on Debian, but /is/ not Debian It's worth noting that Canonical also has a pretty well-known history of being a "bad player" in the wider community. They rarely upstream patches, break things and very much try to "do their own thing" The more cynical of us think its Canonical attempting to segment Ubuntu off from the wider Linux ecosystem to force some kind of "vendor lock-in" by virtue of being the "newbie friendly" Linux option Some of the more egregious examples of things they forked were "small" pieces of the stack. Like the entire fucking desktop environment (Unity) and display server (Mir). Relying on things like Ubuntu-specific forks of GTK and other critical components, which is why those technologies never appeared in other distributions Anecdotally I've also been told by people who work at Red Hat that a lot of Canonical employees were picked up about a year ago after being terminated (allegedly) for attempting to upstream the code they worked on Feel free to wave it off as "mental gymnastics" or "blame shifting" but I do genuinely believe that Canonical has an intentionally poisonous effect on the wider Linux ecosystem