Just thought I'd introduce myself (I don't see a category for this, so I hope it's OK posting here)
Well, after 10+ years on Ubuntu I've decided to move upstream. With every Ubuntu release the distribution moves ever further away from its Debian roots, and I've held on for way longer than I probably should have. For me Ubuntu peaked with 7.10. Lately, every new change seems to come at the expense of stability. The straw that broke the camels back, so to speak, is the latest system update for 16.04 LTS bricking my system. I use it as a LAN server, with every device relying on it for resources. Fortunately, I have /home on its own partition and everything else backed up to an offsite cloud server.
Anyway, I decided enough was enough. I contemplated migrating to Arch/Manjaro or Fedora - heck, I even considered Slackware, although I suspect it wouldn't play all that nice with my hardware - but the thing I loved about Ubuntu was the Debian back-end. I'm not too familiar with the Red Hat implementations. So, with that in mind I decided to cut out the - increasingly volatile - middle man and migrate to Debian itself. And here I am.
Apologies for the essay.
I hope to take an active part in what is rumoured to be the best community in the Linux ecosystem.
Regards,
CF
