alt Hacker News> What is Ubuntu offering that Debian doesn't provide?
Surprised how many answers here are on "social" reasons, and ignoring that Ubuntu does provide genuine additions to Debian.
Ubuntu includes additional proprietary drivers to Debian. So there are legitimate hardware cases were Ubuntu will work out the box and Debian won't. I can't speak for how many people need those drivers, and how much of choice is down to defaults/inertia etc.
From hearing interviews with PopOS folk, I think this is also a big reason people choose Ubuntu as a base for a lot of Distros instead of Debian.
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How many of these additional proprietary drivers are needed on cloud servers, which are based on popular hardware configurations?
What are the numbers of people still installing servers on the real hardware and needing these proprietary drivers?
Using Ubuntu as a base became popular partly for the hardware support, codecs, ease of installation. Typing this from Linux Mint, which offers both the default Ubuntu based edition, and LMDE (the Debian Edition).
Debian has caught up, but it's been a minute since I've installed it.