<story><title>Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-dumps-ubuntu-snap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimhefferon</author><text>What distro? I use Ubuntu because I just want an OS, not a hobby.</text></item><item><author>Darmody</author><text>I can understand Canonical pushing for snaps. It&amp;#x27;s their product and they want it to succeed.&lt;p&gt;That said I hate their dirty ways. I find it even morally wrong. How can &amp;quot;sudo apt install chromium-browser&amp;quot; not install the apt package but install instead a snap?  How I, as a user and also as a professional, trust Ubuntu if when I use their package manager I&amp;#x27;m being tricked?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use Windows for a reason, more than one actually. I&amp;#x27;ve been using Ubuntu even with all the &amp;quot;weird&amp;quot; stuff Canonical has been doing over the years but I think this is the nail in the coffin.&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m using 20.04 but as soon as I finish some work I have left I&amp;#x27;ll install a fresh new distro.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>If you have linux experience Arch Linux can be a good idea.&lt;p&gt;Sure the daunting setup process would fall into the &amp;quot;a hobby&amp;quot; category but once it runs it tends to just keep running as long as you update it from time to time.&lt;p&gt;Using it now for ~5 Years and in that time I had two times problems one was that the new kernel version didn&amp;#x27;t work with my laptop and another which was fully my fault by doing some &amp;quot;special&amp;quot; boot setup with some custom self written package and not maintaining it. Oh and the only reasons they where problems was because I never setup recovery boot or boot prev. kernel version.&lt;p&gt;Besides that I remember having more work with maintaining Ubuntu when I used it ~8 years ago.&lt;p&gt;Also disclaimer I had some more work like setting up edurom with network manager without using any proper UI for it (nmtui...).  It&amp;#x27;s doable but not properly documented. But non of this is a problem if you &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; use Gnome or KDE or at last part of the tooling from Gnome&amp;#x2F;KDE.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: But Fedora is probably what you are looking for. Widely used, well maintained and normally up to date.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-dumps-ubuntu-snap/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimhefferon</author><text>What distro? I use Ubuntu because I just want an OS, not a hobby.</text></item><item><author>Darmody</author><text>I can understand Canonical pushing for snaps. It&amp;#x27;s their product and they want it to succeed.&lt;p&gt;That said I hate their dirty ways. I find it even morally wrong. How can &amp;quot;sudo apt install chromium-browser&amp;quot; not install the apt package but install instead a snap?  How I, as a user and also as a professional, trust Ubuntu if when I use their package manager I&amp;#x27;m being tricked?&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use Windows for a reason, more than one actually. I&amp;#x27;ve been using Ubuntu even with all the &amp;quot;weird&amp;quot; stuff Canonical has been doing over the years but I think this is the nail in the coffin.&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m using 20.04 but as soon as I finish some work I have left I&amp;#x27;ll install a fresh new distro.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dima55</author><text>Just use Debian. Ubuntu is quite literally Debian+bullshit.</text></comment>