and here comes another try by #canonical to finally introduce their stuff into the #linux world, that is replacing ifupdown with "netplan": https://netplan.io/
(after #mir, #upstart, #unity and #bazaar have all failed :)
just to make it plain. canonical is a commercial company and their need to make money always leads to bad stuff, like tracking, spying etc. that's why you shouldn't support companies like that and that's why you shouldn't use or endorse #ubuntu
@steckerhalter The huge feature that kept me with #ubuntu was the #ecryptfs integration. Canonical never seemed to send their changes upstream to utils like useradd et al. ...always stuck in my craw; yet I still stayed.
Now that there are recent numbers about performance with full disk vs ecryptfs, not only have I switched but I may now return to my first love with no issues:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu-1804-encrypt
@PresGas hmm, I have been using LUKS for years. no performance issues that I know of.
@steckerhalter I used to think there wasn't much of a difference (and there still isn't really). I also wanted to use the underlying encrypted layer for cloud backup. However, that DR plan never happened and there are just better solutions. So there really isn't anything holding me back from pure #debian these days.
I give you an example: #debian has a popularity contest where you can participate to send data about what packages you install. by default this is turned off (opt-in).
now in a distro like #ubuntu by a commercial company they don't even ask you to collect the data, they just do it