I immediately thought of Linux Mint Debian Edition when I saw this. They describe it as something they are developing just in case, you know, "Ubuntu was ever t

I immediately thought of Linux Mint Debian Edition when I saw this. They describe it as something they are developing just in case, you know, "Ubuntu was ever to disappear." Well, excepting for some kind of Microsoft acquisition of Canonical ("we will be shifting our focus to developing Ubuntu for WSL"), I don't think Ubuntu will disappear, but it certainly might become so unfriendly to downstream distros that they have to move off of it.