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My employer is forcing us to migrate from Debian to Ubuntu because they want access to paid support. Holy crap, I hate snap so much.

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A link to the video on PeerTube through Tilvids: https://tilvids.com/w/e4fxGdZgmgZeHVUrPLunUt

It makes me feel so nostalgic.

I still remember trying something alien called Linux on an old Dell Laptop (and also on my Playstation 3) I had inherited from my dad’s company. It was good that everything worked out of the box because I had not technical knowledge. I can’t know for sure but I guess it was a version of Ubuntu between 6.XX and 8.XX.

Then it was Linux all the time, until having a Windows dual boot in the mid-2010 before switching back to Linux fully at the beginning of the 2020’s.

No more Ubuntu though since I fell in love with Fedora.

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Thank God mint exists so everyone has a viable snap-free alternative.

Wish they’d drop it already.

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The thing with Ubuntu is: Every single one of their releases since 2008 had a “I wish they’d drop this” thing.
What people want is a preconfigured Debian with newer packages and non-free Codecs.
But that’s not what Canonical wants. They use Debian as base to build off of its millions of volunteer work-hours, but very much try to commercialize and monetize their product.

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It sounds like people want Mint?

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Mint with default KDE would be the perfect beginner distro.

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Complete history of Ubuntu: a lot of highs, a lot of lows bugs and poor decisions.

There, fixed for you.

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The only reason I don’t like snaps is because they don’t include all functionality. For example, I couldn’t print with Gimp and Darktable snaps.

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You don’t mind that each snap you install is further slowing down boot times?

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As a watercolor artist, who sells prints, the printing was a bigger problem for me.

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