• Grangle1@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This thread has basically devolved into “Ubuntu hate circlejerk party”, as expected. I guess I just hate the distro I’ve spent the majority of my time on Linux using getting constantly dunked on and am a bit sad watching its inevitable death by snap. (Insert Thanos meme here)

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Ubuntu professionally and as a daily driver for more than a decade now. I’ve tried the other major ones but Ubuntu is just no fuss. I can stand up a fresh system in 20 minutes and there is an enormous support base. I just don’t have time to be a Linux hipster these days.

      The only thing I can see which might win me over one day is Nix.

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          Yeah. Part of me is annoyed by snaps. But, tbh, having tried fedora and opensuse over the last few years, I don’t quite see how they’re so much worse than freaking Flatpaks. And at least they come gods damned fully enabled.

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      1 year ago

      I see more manjaro than ubuntu.

      Ubuntu had so many years as the “default” that people have some old perfect version of ubuntu that they liked better. Some early version from the gnome2 days, or else people who loved unity.

      For my part, the last time I tried it, there were snap and apt versions of so many apps, that when you had an issue it was hard to troubleshoot because there would be two sets of solves. That was enough to get me to bail. I wonder if that’s still an issue.

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        1 year ago

        Probably to some degree… But on any other distro, the same is almost certainly true today too. Only it’s between… rpm/aur/deb/etc and Flatpaks instead of snap.