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but other distributions are complex to install and besides, Ubuntu works out of the box on my laptop!! But thank you so much, I once tried KDE but Plasma felt very hard to understand.
Something like mint or fedora is just as easy to install and has less issues than ubuntu (snaps)
why do some people heavily dislike Snaps?? I don't see them when I install software, and it doesn't make Ubuntu slow.
Copied from another comment I wrote about that:
Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that's easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.
Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn't about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.
But what does canonical think should happen when you run
sudo apt install firefoxand pressY? That's right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole
The Firefox snap opens instantly for me. I don't think you've used snaps for a while.
Maybe they fixed that part, but that isn't a good thing. Now you can't feel whether something is installed as snap and will probably run into snap issues without a clue what could be causing them.
Do it's a problem if they don't perform well and it's a problem if they do lol
Oh, come on. You're saying that it's a problem that snaps don't have immediately obvious performance problems or bugs?
Let's not get silly about these things...
I disagree eight the other poster. Please use whatever distribution you feel most comfortable with!
With KDE Plasma you might want to wait for the upcoming 6 release, since they simplified a lot of stuff (and also Wayland per default iirc?). Kubuntu will take longer than Feodora to ship though.
I personally used Plasma a lot, and I understand the being overwhelmed. What I did was just working with it, and figuring stuff out along the way. I think KDE Plasma is awesome, especially for customization!
Use what distro you like, but most distros are very easy to install (some even easier than Ubuntu I would argue). KDE Neon would be a good starting point in that regard. What exactly is hard to understand about Plasma? I have heard this sometimes now but I really don’t get it, I find it to be very easy to understand as it integrates for example theming
Kvantum?
I just installed Fedora. The install process is as simple and straightforward as for Ubuntu.