Linux

tldr: He left because of Snap.

-Just like the rest of us.

Somehow I've drifted back to Ubuntu because of work. It's useful being on the same os as everyone else when troubleshooting, but I hate how I have to "fix" it on every fresh install, it just put up with broken snaps and constantly crashing security updates.

Honestly Arch was less work than this.

ubuntu is so popular when you stop using it you get to write a blog post

Based as heck!

I was about to install Ubuntu, which I've used before, but decided to try out Mint. About to throw the switch right now in fact. Hope it's a good decision.

LOL this is me. Bonus points for the immuteable versions. The first truly desktop linux that "just works" and dare I say improves over windows in basically every way.

Ditched Ubuntu last year for Hannah Montana Linux and haven't looked back.

Good choice: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop/#fedora-workstation

I fucking love the “friendship ended” meme. It makes me laugh every time.

Ha, I had the same experience with Debian this week.

Man I used to love Ubuntu. Then snaps...and it broke a lot of things. Now I'm on other oses. But I appreciate what they did to the Debian flavors of distos.

They work reasonably well, you can update them whenever you want and they are optional. Your Firefox installation won’t suddenly turn into a Flatpak overnight.

This kind of heavy handed management of change is unacceptable. Ubuntu deserves all the bad publicity they’re getting from this.

Then again, change is always hard, so there’s no easy way around this problem. Once canonical has implemented all the major changes they have in mind, Ubuntu could be worth testing again. In the meantime, it’s hard to recommend it to anyone.

Fedora is clearly a safer choice even though it too changes frequently. I used to update my system through the GUI, but over the years, that method became unreliable, and eventually broke completely. I ended up updating through the CLI instead, which isn’t something I can remember to everyone.

i ditched Ubuntu for Void Linux LXDE. Void Linux has runit rather than systemd

This predates snapd

Disclaimer: you have to setup the wifi and enable logind

At those times I swear, I have a knack for avoiding problems before they appear.

Some years ago I migrated from Ubuntu to Debian. It was due to something silly, like defaults. Then I got pissed with Debian Stable, went to Testing, got pissed again... and for some reason instead of going back to Ubuntu I gave Mint a try.

Then people started talking about snaps a lot, and I gave them a try in Mint. This was in a potato computer so I could clearly notice how slow they were to start. Nope.

Then Ubuntu started forcing them every where, but by then I could simply say "Not My Problem®". Mint maintainers are clearly against snaps, and I'm happy with it.

Glad to see Õunapuu also found a way to handle the problem by changing distros. I'm too deep into the APT rabbit hole to get used to Fedora, but it seems like a good choice regardless.

I'm in the process of switching from Ubuntu/Mint to Fedora. I'm trying it on my laptop first; if that goes well, I've got 2 others to switch over.

I dumped Mint for Fedora over upgrade issues. No ragrets.

Hey guys, even LXC kinda sorta ditched Ubuntu. The creator gave away his baby LXD to Ubuntu and started supporting Incus instead.

Although i think it was just canonical that he wanted freedom from.

Unity did it for me. Moved to mint, never looked back.

Ubuntu is just like Windows now, you have to run a debloater to make it usable.

There is a reason I put arch on my latest computer. I will give it a few months to be sure but I'm thinking of swicthing. details matter so when printing doesn't 'just work' in one program with a print dialog I know snap is not ready for ubuntus target.

As much as I dislike Ubuntu, I wouldn't use Fedora, sponsored by Red Hat, a US company, either. LMDE is the way.

Arch time!

Kubuntu is all I need personally.

I use popOS and never had a problem with snaps. They're not nearly as bad as flatpak. I avoid those like the plague.

Be circa.... Some time in covid