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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Xubuntu experience (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by ykms to c/[email protected]

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I have just installed Xubuntu 23.04 (minimal edition) and removed the snaps. I forgot how fast and nice Xfce actually is. I really like using it, coming from a window manager and Arch. The only downside that I found is the Ubuntu repos; yes, they have most stuff but they're just old (even on 23.04). I hope I won't feel the need to distro-hop anymore. I just wanted to share my positive experience with yall because I don't think Xubuntu gets any attention. :D

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found that adding flatpak and flathub solves the old packages on Ubuntu based distributions for me, at least for the most part. It obviously doesn't really work for cli stuff but then the only cli app I regularly use is yt-dlp and I install that via pip

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree and also use flatpak for many apps because they work on many distros. Flatpak works even on distros like NixOS that does not adhere to the fhs and alpine that doesn't use the GNU coreutils.

Distrobox or Nix are great for cli stuff, since they allow package installation independent of the system package manager.

These tools makes using any distro mostly the same.