DNF (abbreviation for Dandified YUM)

These guys don’t know how abbreviations work, I guess.

If you like Flatpaks you can uninstall Snap (sudo apt purge snapd) and use that instead.

apt repos are unaffected (excluding those packages tied to Snap e.g Firefox) but again, you can get them from Flathub.

It’s made even worse by some software pretending to be Ubuntu builds but just quietly installing a Snap version instead.

Looking at you, Firefox. 👀

Switched to EndeavourOS a couple of years ago as my main, and its been amazing. No regrets.

Isn’t the default installation of Ubuntu to BTRFS? In which case, you should have an @ subvolume with Ubuntu that’s mounted to /, and an @home subvolume that’s mounted to /home.

Make a new subvolume, install a new operating system into it, and choose that subvolume in the bootloader, should be able to have Ubuntu and ‘your favourite OS’ (I use Arch btw) living side-by-side with the same home directory.

Is there a good progression for my “next distro after Ubuntu?”.

Yes. Linux Mint has got your back.

As an old-timey Linux user, I eventually stopped using Ubuntu because they have a habit of kind of fixating on whatever they think is the new cool thing, and going all-in on it while other important things stagnate, then they get it to the point where it’s almost really good, then ditch it and go chasing after the next shiny thing.

Off the top of my head there was the Unity desktop, Mir, This thing where they wanted an OS that would run on both desktops and phones interchangeably, and now it’s Snaps. I don’t think Ubuntu is a bad distro, but I also don’t think it’s the best distro for newcomers necessarily because of it’s habit of suddenly lurching off in a new direction every few years. But that’s just me of course, if it works for you then go for it!

I have absolutely no idea why Ubuntu is seemingly hated by everyone on lemmy.

It’s Snaps.

I mentioned somewhere else that my reason for using Linux is that, when I have a problem, no one designed that problem to extract money from me.

Snaps feel designed to extract money.

The funny part is, I’ve bought Ubuntu CDs just to support Canonical. I like giving them money.

But Snaps feel like more of the kind of bullshit that I left Windows over, to me.

Snaps redirect some of my software requests from fully free community packages into a partially paid app store. They’re not (yet) ripping me off, they just appear to be getting ready to rip me off.

Seems to work fine, Installation was easy.

Yes. Ubuntu is a fine place to start. It was the first Linux distro that really worked for me.

Eventually, down the line, Snap may cause you some headaches, so we generally recommend Mint, which is effectively Ubuntu without Snap.

The anger is just that Canonical keeps claiming to be an ally while appearing to prepare to rip people off by selling other people’s work that they gave away for free, for a fee.

meme answer: it’s too easy to use

actual answer: it’s not optimized for the level of customization your average linux user wants

I don’t see the point of flatpaks when there are appimages.

Anyway last I heard snap has terminal/server apps and more system interaction.

The benefit to me is that snaps update as soon as the patch is pushed and they sandbox better than flatpak. Its also easier to maintain a snap from a dev perspective (idk if thats true I just read it on some fourm)

I prefer flatpak because i like the name and flathub better but the development has kind of stagnated and a lot of their benefits are non existent. Flatpak sandbox is kind of a meme at the moment because most apps ask for way to many perms just to work.