Ubuntu advanced desktop Linux in terms of ease of installation, drivers and slickness bar a time when Debian seemed to be stagnating. I was a Debian user for ye

Ubuntu advanced desktop Linux in terms of ease of installation, drivers and slickness bar a time when Debian seemed to be stagnating. I was a Debian user for years, but around 2005-6 I decided to change my main system to Ubuntu. At the time, it had been years since stable Debian had been updated and I was finding it laborious to update the software manually. Meanwhile, Debian unstable was more up to date with the latest KDE, gnome, etc but was ... unstable. Ubuntu did a lot of work well in terms of final fit and polish to make Debian more user friendly. While I have long been most at home glunking around in a shell, I appreciated this there's a limit to how much time I can spend compiling KDE and upgrading libc.