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[–] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I am going to call it that now.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year 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@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or Mint which is pre unsnapped for your pleasure

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] citty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] j4de@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora is funded by red hat

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slow, forced. Flatpack is better.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year 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?

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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

snaps break webusb, which some normies need

[–] endhits@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year 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.

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year 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

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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