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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They forced Firefox's default package into a snap recently. They did this without integrating with Gnome or common plugins like password managers. This of course broke a ton of shit out of the blue.

Then, to get Firefox off of snap, you have to do a non zero amount of config instead of giving the users a simple option at install. If you mess that config up at all, the next Firefox update just goes back to snap.

Forcing people's primary application into an Canonical controlled packaging system is likely worse than an ad, honestly. It made it very clear to me that Ubuntu did not respect user choice like it used to, so i migrated off of it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Smart move ๐Ÿ‘.

Out of curiosity, what do you use now? LMDE?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I bounced around to Debain and opensuse tumbleweed, but landed on pop-os. Ubuntu without snap nonsense, optional i3 tiling manager implementation, "just works."

For the server side, ive moved to Debian. Nothing lost at all.