They don't have a principled stance from a GNU point of view. Debian installation media includes non-free software [1]. The killer feature of Ubuntu and its derivatives was always built-in support for proprietary codecs and drivers that actual regular people aside from Richard Stallman expect to work.
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They don't have a principled stance from a GNU point of view. Debian installation media includes non-free software [1]. The killer feature of Ubuntu and its derivatives was always built-in support for proprietary codecs and drivers that actual regular people aside from Richard Stallman expect to work.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Debian_12_.28bookworm.29_an...