I suggest Mint or straight Debian. I prefer Mint for anything graphical, Debian for headless
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What benifit does Mint have over Debian for anything graphical?
I've just found it's more polished right out of the box. Definitely more new-user-friendly, like Ubuntu, but with Snap gutted out.
I have been using the regular Mint (based on Ubuntu), but I'm probably going to use the Debian edition next time I install a new system
I battled that for about a year and then ditched Debian based diatros altogether.
OpenSUSE ftw
Welcome to 2020, where Debian is once again your trusted distro.
Not a secret, but annoying as hell. I usually replace it with a Flatpak and uninstall Snap.
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I've had it happen too. In fact it is what prompted me to move away from Kubuntu.
Yeah it's not really a secret
I got a notification about it when I upgraded from 20.04 LTS that they will only serve it as a snap package.
Yup. They also did this with Docker, and it broke my setup (and was a bitch to debug).
This was a couple of years ago, and I haven't used Ubuntu unless absolutely necessary (and then usually in a container).
Docker in a snap is too meta for me.
Just wait for snap 2.0 which actually runs everything inside docker containers /s
Yes. That was the last straw for me. I switched to debian stable, and haven't looked back since
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Definitely not you, they absolutely do this with snaps and have for a while. This was the main reason I stopped using Ubuntu.
This is why i switched to Debian. It's 99% of Ubuntu, without the crap.
I must have hit that 1% last time. I assembled a new PC, wanted to install debian and could not get a login screen after installation. At that point I wanted something that just works. I installed Xubuntu and had the machine ready right away.
Thats... odd. The installer packages aren't really that different. When was this?
I.... I.... I don't know why I haven't done that myself. (Am now on NixOS btw) but for work maybe I ask for Debian cloud box.
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Solve the problem. Drop ubunutu
Or you can just remove snap. I have been running a up-to-date snap-free ubuntu for 2 years
They started doing that in a couple of years back. Saw quite a bit of backlash in the Linux news media at the time.
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It is one of the reasons many people turn away from Ubuntu.
Not secretly, no.
But it's not obvious either. When I say 'apt install firefox', specially after adding their repository to sources.list, I'd expect to get a .deb from mozilla. Silently overriding my commands rubs me in a very wrong way.
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My work cannot manage permissions well so I cannot remove snap Firefox cos its in use by another user.
Meanwhile current snap version of Firefox is crashing on my profile
At this point, why is anyone using Ubuntu for desktop? You have soooo many options
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I suspect that what's happened is you installed the apt version, then at some point upgraded it and there was a version in the main repo that had a higher version number and installed the snap version. If two repositories both have a package with the same name, and no other rules in place, the higher version number wins.
If that is the case, you need to pin the firefox package to the mozilla repository. You can find more details here: https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration
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Jesus Christ this is Windows-tier insane computing behaviour from Ubuntu. Fuck Ubuntu.
Switch to Debian and you'll be fine :)
Wasn’t that one of the main critiques of snap/ubuntu/canonical a few years ago already?
Among my personal dislike for its shade of purple, that has been my primary reason to not recommend ubuntu for a while, at least.
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Is KDE Neon still broken? For awhile it was the only Ubuntu based distro I'd recommend. Yes, I know about Mint but no HDR or Wayland.
I'm reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it's not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that's a great thing.
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