Yeah, see this is why I went with Linux Mint Debian Edition instead of Ubuntu-flavored Linux Mint. I know the Mint guys strip out most of the less-desirable stuff that ships with Ubuntu, but at that point you may as well have just started with Debian. Seems easier to go forward from a Debian base instead of working backwards from a slopified Debian-based distro.

Canonical is just another shitty corpo masquerading as a “good guy”.