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So, title. Personally after trying out pretty much every major distro save gentoo, I’ve come back to Ubuntu because it just works and I can focus on my work. Did remove snap and install flatpak, but other than that it’s mostly stock ubuntu.
Debian Bookworm.
The purpose of my home computer is to help me work or play games. I don’t want to expend effort updating/fixing my computer.
I would use Ubuntu but Snaps is impossible to turn off and they are insanely slow. CentOS/RHEL/Rocky seem to make every package require a full Gnome install and I use KDE. That only leaves OpenSUSE and the multi arch Debian installer makes installing Debian easier than OpenSUSE.
Do people really have this much gripe with the Snaps? I don’t even touch them and am only reminded they exist when people complain about them. Is there any actual downside to just ignoring installing Snaps and instead installing packages manually anyways?
for me it stopped being fun when firefox couldn’t access certain OS features or usb keys because they hadn’t specifically coded that one in. and I could only wait for a patch.
For me it’s a case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. I don’t get the point of switching to snaps when apt packages worked perfectly fine.
And in my experience it’s actually worse than APT. Installs/updates are slow, as is app startup, system integration features need extra work, …
Debain for me. Just because it’s the one that has worked best for me no other reason.
I had made a media/gaming box tried PopOS! but had some trouble getting encoding to work through docker. Switched to Ubuntu after that and it worked like a charm. Now with Bookworm, when I get the desire & energy, I might switch it to full Debian.