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I started using ubuntu 2 years ago and its great. Just disable snaps. It's like 5 commands (and you have to reinstall Firefox).
You stop snap store from running, disable it from restarting then set apt over snap store as default.
It's not hard. I did it day 1 of using Linux. Plus there's guides a plenty on how to do it.
If you are using Ubuntu and disabling snaps, might as well use something else. Snaps are basically the selling point of Ubuntu and any other distro based on it will provide a better experience if you don't want them.
What about all the other pros of ubuntu?
Off the top of my head,
- their power management is better than any other distro for laptops.
- Their compatibility with WiFi drivers is better than many others, granted that's not exclusive to ubuntu but it is a pro.
- theyre more up to date than debian but stable while actually coming with Wayland support unlike Mint. Timeshift is great tho, good thing it's compatible with ubuntu.
- their community is much larger than many other distro so support is easier to find.
- it's just not a bad distro. There's not a lot of other distros that match its out-of-the-box experience.
Other distros are good. PopOS is good. I chose Ubuntu mostly because it's solid and stable but also because it has a wide community for help. I'm just getting tired of the narrative that ubuntu is totally crippled by its snaps. This is a linux distro, if I don't like something I get to change it, which is actually cool. This isn't windows where I have no control. Also, with snaps gone, I've literally never had a problem I haven't caused. I have the approach of strip out what I don't want. Arch users install what they do want. At the end of the day, we both are exploiting software we want to use to be productive. If I found myself fighting the os (like Mac or Windows) I'd switch but I don't so I won't.
What about all the other pros of ubuntu?
- uses a cool word from the Zulu language
This guy gets it
At that point just use PopOS. Why the hell would you use Ubuntu just to disable snaps?
Because snaps aren't the only feature the distro comes with. It's widely versatile, commonly used, and this argument isn't a good one. PopOS is good, so is ubuntu minus the snaps.
Why did you disable snaps on the first day of using Linux?
That sentence should probably read "on my first day of using Linux outside of a vm on bare metal with an installation I intended to keep". I use Kali for security work and I used Manjaro once but it killed itself before I knew what I was doing.
Snaps are not very space efficient, I don't need the same packages installed multiple times. In a desktop use case that's a lot of repeating packages.
I think you're gonna have a bad time since that's essentially what all the newer formats do (flatpak, snap, appimage).