datiswous

Make sure to press "refresh" after you started the computer and have opened the update program before updating things from the list or if the list show nothing at all.

Since a certain system update (don't know which one), I regularly have the following situation:

1. I open the update program.
2. The program shows  (a) nothing or (b) X possible updates.
3. When pressing "refresh", the program shows (a) suddenly available updates or (b) X+X possible updates.

Ubuntu version seems to be extremely stable (had not one crash since permanently switching to latest build in December 24).

I've tried Debian version as well, but for reasons unknown (maybe something went wrong during installation?), it worked much slower, certain programs had not been available (or at least I was not able to find and install them), etc.

This will probably get better if the team maybe has to drop the Ubuntu version for the known reasons.

Apart from that, I think this is a good choice if you want to have a Windows like appearance (when using Cinammon).

Well yeah Debian's package base is smaller and less recent I think. I don't really see the point of going to Debian. It's strange that it's slower than the Ubuntu version though..

I tried to like Kde, Gnome and Cinamon, but in the end sticked with xfce.

I think xfce is also a good choice if coming from Windows.

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Since a certain system update (don't know which one), I regularly have the following situation:

1. I open the update program.
2. The program shows  (a) nothing or (b) X possible updates.
3. When pressing "refresh", the program shows (a) suddenly available updates or (b) X+X possible updates.

Maybe you could check if changing mirrors (Menu Edit > Software Sources > Official Repositories) helps, or maybe some of the options in Maintenance (Menu Edit > Software Sources > Maintenance)

This is just a wild guess though.