The Ubuntu release philosophy just never worked for me as someone that’s used to using up-to-date software. I don’t mind the little (sometimes big) issues that crop up. Then there’s the snap debacle, especially how they surreptitiously install snap versions of apps even when you use apt-install. I can’t trust software that lies to me. I use Arch but always recommend Fedora as that seems to be the best balance of stability and keeping current on drivers and software.
Meditations on trusting trust. You trust your compiler, unless you programmed something in an electrical diagram on paper then went down to a hardware store, paid in cash, and built it
Ubuntu was dead to me when they started pushing hard on their wall-garden Snap nonsense. Good on Mint’s devs for not just doing the lazy and just going with stock Ubuntu, but instead taking the time to make a base variant with Snap specifically ripped out.
The packages get updates fairly quickly for a non-rolling release distro, and the distro is more batteries-included and tends to adopt newer technologies like BTRFS faster than other distros. It also has the immutable Silverblue variant which looks neat although I’ve never used it myself.
I’ve got a really powerful machine and the Debian kernel wasn’t compatible with my graphics card. Mint kind of felt like Windows but a crappier, older version. Fedora felt like something that is actually making a break away from stale old things. And, everything was just plug and play for me.
STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT
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It’s probably the most polished non-enterprise distro. I avoid anything based on Ubuntu like the plague, though.
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The Ubuntu release philosophy just never worked for me as someone that’s used to using up-to-date software. I don’t mind the little (sometimes big) issues that crop up. Then there’s the snap debacle, especially how they surreptitiously install snap versions of apps even when you use apt-install. I can’t trust software that lies to me. I use Arch but always recommend Fedora as that seems to be the best balance of stability and keeping current on drivers and software.
Meditations on trusting trust. You trust your compiler, unless you programmed something in an electrical diagram on paper then went down to a hardware store, paid in cash, and built it
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Just pointing out that certainty is vulnerability.
Ubuntu was dead to me when they started pushing hard on their wall-garden Snap nonsense. Good on Mint’s devs for not just doing the lazy and just going with stock Ubuntu, but instead taking the time to make a base variant with Snap specifically ripped out.
They’re a Fedora user because they use Fedora
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The packages get updates fairly quickly for a non-rolling release distro, and the distro is more batteries-included and tends to adopt newer technologies like BTRFS faster than other distros. It also has the immutable Silverblue variant which looks neat although I’ve never used it myself.
I’ve got a really powerful machine and the Debian kernel wasn’t compatible with my graphics card. Mint kind of felt like Windows but a crappier, older version. Fedora felt like something that is actually making a break away from stale old things. And, everything was just plug and play for me.