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Ubuntu is turning like Windows
(thelemmy.club)
I guess it's time to leave Ubuntu as a new user and switch to a new distro. Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Mint were my choice, but their base, Ubuntu, is becoming "bloated", and turning to a latest computers' OS. And I think it will affect its derivatives. Which distro would you suggest to switch to. I aint rich. I'm already aware of Fedora and its xfce, kde spins, Opensuse Leap and Tumbleweed, Debian and its derivatives, and Void. Are you planning to switch too.
I think a lot of the hate is snaps. Ubuntu has pushed a technology on the users that is unpopular before (Unity) and largely ignored the criticism, which is a Windows-like behavior. I can attest that snaps really sucked on old hardware when they first rolled out. I haven't really used Ubuntu since 22.04, so I can't comment on the current state of snaps, other than to say that a buddy swears they are way faster now. It's a rock and a hard place situation for Canonical though, because if Firefox from apt crashes, Ubuntu gets hate, not Firefox.
I think I switched to a Mint daily driver after that horrible Unity came out. It was soooo bad.
Anyways, Canonical did some.bad shit around 2011 or so. I can't remember what it was now that there are many orgs that I've banned from my life for privacy issues, fascist support, etc. I've avoided them since. Back then I was using Mint with MATE and no issues. If Canonical was affiliated back then, I must have been oblivious while using Mint.
I hope I never see a snap again. Maybe they are better now than last time I have to deal with one, but why when we have flatpaks and appimages? Why do they suck so much?