Mastodawn

A friend of mine who switch to #linux back in march 2025 and started with #fedora as distribution on my recommendation, asked my opinion on #ubuntu
I was perfectly honest that I in general like the distro, it just insist on things I don't like. Like none vanilla #gnome #snaps and so on.
He said he was thinking about giving it a spin due to a lot of the resources online was available for only Ubuntu.
I, honestly, encourage him to go for it. I don't want to be a distro gatekeeper.

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looopTools 5d ago

That was two weeks ago.
In the last two days I have gotten more questions about Ubuntu, than I got about fedora in 11 months! He had a problem with VLC... turns out it was installed as a snap and did not have the right permissions. He had problems with gnome plugins clashing with canonicals default once. He had a weird issue that he and I are still trying to debug with #libreoffice crashing if and only if he starts Calc before Write and this one baffels me and.

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looopTools 5d ago

the list goes on with a lot of applications, that behaves weirdly. From what I can tell so far. All applications (except libreoffice) he is having problems with are snaps! Either there is /home/<USER> they cannot access or its issues with them not having a dependency and so on.
Can someone please tell me if this is normal, I am not that experienced with snaps. He is running 25.10

He is thinking about switching back to Fedora because of all of these issues.

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qrvhh

@looopTools I did run into problems (with snaps, but also with regular packages) on 25.10, which made me go back to 24.04 LTS. In all honesty, while interim releases should work just as well as LTS ones, I only ever suggest upgrading from LTS if there is something thats required by one's workflow being added to a new interim.

Unfortunately all I can suggest is either giving 24.04 a spin, or waiting for 26.04, it should be more stable, and an overall better experience.