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@cyborganism if you like the good improvements that Ubuntu provides on top of Debian, but want to avoid anti-user things like snaps and ads in the CLI, there are several distros that are built like that, such as Mint and Tuxedo OS

@cyborganism Isn't it easier to just not use Ubuntu? If you want to avoid snaps, Ubuntu is probably not where you want to be, I think

@merompetehla Linux Mint XFCE is basically the same thing as Xubuntu, except without Canonical's bad proprietary decisions like snaps. It's much more of a drop-in replacement than, say, Debian.

@carloshr @privacy @linux Elementary used to feel way ahead of its time, now it feels a bit behind instead. Not exactly a bad distro, but also not my top pick. Linux Mint has been rock solid for me for many years.