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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I am going to call it that now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're running Ubuntu as a server this is useful advice.

If you're running Ubuntu as a desktop, just install Fedora instead..

[–] Goodtoknow 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or Mint which is pre unsnapped for your pleasure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mint is a solid choice, but I really like KDE and Fedora saves me the hassle of switching DEs after install.

But yes, for most Ubuntu users, switching to Mint is a capital idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Naah fedora = red hat and red hat = bad. I’m all in on Vanilla OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed moment (although I'm still on Fedora on my primary device because moving is inconvenient while at school)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Red Hat are no better or worse than Canonical at the end of the day. If you're dead set on avoiding anything with corporate backing, I guess switch to Gentoo or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except red head is profit driven but fedora is conmunity driven and open source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fedora is funded by red hat

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not up to date on my Linux drama, what's wrong with Snap?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Slow, forced. Flatpack is better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh, guess when I eventually end up back on Linux I'll stay away from Ubuntu then. I assume it's in things like Xubuntu and so on too?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I personally wouldn’t stay away from Ubuntu just because of petty nerd shenanigans like this one. At the end of the day it’s still a very mature and beginner friendly distro.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I used to use it back in the day, I even kinda liked that Unity thing they were doing for a minute. Whenever I end up back there (technically I'm already on Linux because I have a Steam Deck) I'm more likely to look for something lightweight

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

snaps break webusb, which some normies need

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just use Fedora. In my opinion, it's the new gold standard for standard use Linux distributions.

If you really want an Ubuntu base, Pop!_OS is also good. They're working on making their own desktop environment, which is looking pretty sweet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's centralized and controlled by Canonical, it enforces updates and you can't disable it, sometimes when you uninstall snapd it cames back when you apt update and most importantly, it is painfully slow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Oh so it's the exact kind of enshittification that anyone on Linux went there to escape. Sounds like a deal breaker to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

So it’s not about snap, it’s about canonical- and they are why I’m no longer an Ubuntu user. Debian > any downstream distro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, sounds extremely shitty. It'd be fine if they didn't force it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And the fact they're forcing it tells you they're going to do something anti-consumer with it, so even if it doesn't suck now it will in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Valid point

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

whem/if i do get a computer i'm thinking of dualbooting windows and linux mint (since the only computer I have is a school laptop that runs windows)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's how I started out! It was a pretty decent experience.

However, I would rate Debian as a slightly better choice over Mint. You see, Mint is a fork of Ubuntu (which is a fork of Debian). So when I needed to troubleshoot an issue, instead of just googling "Linux Mint [my issue]", I actually sometimes had to google "Ubuntu [my issue]", or even "Debian [my issue]", depending on the situation. This is because Mint and Ubuntu share large similarities with Debian, but with certain particular differences; for any given situation, I didn't necessarily know which differences played a role. This is actually why I switched to Debian; I figured, my experience was going to be basically exactly the same, just with more straightforward troubleshooting.

If you're worried about user-friendliness, then the good news is that's largely to do with your desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, etc). Whichever one you pick, it will pretty much feel the exact same no matter whether the underlying distro is Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint. Especially because they're all Debian-based.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Any other distro moment(just use debian if you dont care its stable for everyone ik)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Is that famous cappy-blappy name of gort???

[–] yetAnotherUser 2 points 2 years ago

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