i’m glad you shared this because it’s forced me to take stock of all the time that has passed by as he explained his experiences with ubuntu.

i got especially nostalgic when he mentioned compiz and the feeling of being on the bleeding edge. it felt so bleeding edge that when ubuntu made that public mistake w grub in one of their earlier releases, it got me to consider buying a linux laptop; which i did a few years later permanently, until recently.

also: unity was awesome.

Damn, now I feel old. The first linux distro I installed (and was able to run on my hardware) was their second release, 05.04.

Peak low with Snap.

That’s what made me move onto other distros.

I’d still be using Ubuntu sometimes if it weren’t for the snaps thing. They only make sense for proprietary software… but snaps still suck. I don’t like packaged software. They contain all kinds of things that can’t be updated. The app store was getting better before all that changed. Now Debian seems better, but I still prefer source based distros like Gentoo because the ingredients come with recipes.

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.