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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Honestly, even if I don't like Snaps that much, Ubuntu/Kubuntu ain't so bad after all. I've been running it as a daily for months now on my Linux-only gaming PC and it's working quite well. There's good support for proprietary drivers and media codecs out of the box.

And personally, I'd advise on using the Kubuntu version because KDE is so much closer in terms of desktop paradigm than Gnome.

And Fedora ain't bad either.

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[+] Kraiden@kbin.earth 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

It's like a Honda Civic. It's just reliable and easy to maintain with good performance and some good features and some you don't really want but are still practical. And there's a big community giving lots of support and documentation to tweak it if you want more out of it.

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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Canonical (Ubuntu) bastardized their own OS. I recommend Mint Debian for noobs; Mint is what Ubuntu used to be when it was good and going Debian gets away from Canonical entirely.

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Wait what did they do?

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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago

Snaps, their own app-in-a-box format. Which would be fine, except they're provided only by Ubuntu's closed-source Snap Store, have larger size and inferior performance because dependencies are redundantly rolled into each one, and the worst part is that they started turning nearly every app in their OS into a Snap. If you sudo apt install firefox, you get a Firefox Snap instead of a native package.

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