You’ve just answered your ow question; back up the /etc directory should cover all those.

Putting “company things” in quotes like you don’t believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down…

Ubuntu is fine for very beginners, but don’t lie and say “it’s fine”, only to have any competent user discover very quickly that snaps take precedence over deb, snaps will be reenabled on minor release upgrades, even if you disabled them, ubuntu’s built-in NVIDIA install support has become abysmal, ubuntu has recently made the choice to fall out of step with its own supported DEs with regard to xorg support, etc.

You know one of your options is just to ignore the post, right?

Hmm… Actually, I may have been too hasty in my reply, let me check.

Yes

And poettering is an absolute good guy here.

You obviously weren’t actually around when he was granted mini-king status and acted like a jackass to literally anyone who objected to pulse or systemd. As a result, redhat, canonical, and Debian had to eat criticism over pushing these before they were ready… because of “superstar” poettering.

Poettering is a disrespectful clown.

At the time, canonical was throwing its weight around and essentially bullying Debian upstream repos. Around this time, there was a mass exodus of the Debian leadership over this kind of thing.

The old guard of Debian wasn’t as… enthusiastic about systemd either, but look what they use now.

It’s true, and it was a huge pain in the ass:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/223855

I think so. I lost count of the little things, it really was death by a thousand paper cuts.

I was a pretty rabid fan of Ubuntu, still have an x86 and ppc CD of 5.04 somewhere.

But by the time snaps started appearing, and then Ubuntu pro, Ubuntu decided to revert some of my customized configs in /etc after an upgrade, I had had enough. When snaps were reinstalled after an upgrade in 2021, I just flipped over to Debian, which has come a long way in being usable out of the box.

I was at this point until about 3 years ago. Switched to debian, wont look back.

Or mir, or pulseaudio before it was ready, or deprecating ffmpeg for half a year… Etc etc