Same here. What especially irritated me was that even though I installed the .deb firefox and followed the directions to disable snap firefox, occasionally Ubuntu went ahead and reinstalled snap firefox for me.

debian is the best

How has your experience been so far?

For me it was when I was trying to use some Android tools and it tried to install the snap version. The snap version was broken of course.

installs Firefox LSR

(I am still very happy having made the switch to debian, although I would like to switch to plasma 6 at some point xD)

Looks like a NiN album cover.

Trisquel GNU/Linux, is Ubuntu with all the non-free packages removed. Don’t see any of that stuff.

I also am very fond of 8.10. It was my first exposure to Linux :)

At least back then, snaps wouldn’t work if the home folders were not under /home/<username>,

Do you mean that it literally had /home/ hard-coded instead of using $HOME? That’s crazy if so.

Tbf, Unbuntu works, but they’re ran by a company which has made some questionable choices. You can still go with it if you don’t care too much, it has the advantages of being user friendly and well documented.

If you’d rather not, but you want something not too far and equally easy, you can go with Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu but disables snaps. They also offer differently choices of desktop environments, the default being Cinnamon (which looks a bit more like windows), and another being Mate, which is closer to Gnome.

They also have a “Debian Edition”, which aims to stop being dependant on Ubuntu and may or may not replace the default edition someday, but so far it’s not the one they recommend for new users.

You could try out Linux Mint¹, they’re Ubuntu based and disable Snap by default².

1. https://linuxmint.com
2. https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

Just install something else like Linux Mint or Pop OS. Ubuntu doesn’t seem to want to respect your rights as a user. You do one thing and the sneakily do something else. Its a bit like how Microsoft makes Edge the default after an update.

Download the live disc images of Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Arch blah blah etc etc etc.

Distrowatch.com is a great resource.

Take them for a test drive before you commit.

If this is your 1st forlay into Linux and you just wanna ride, do yourself a favor and install Mint. It works, and it’s a great way to get into it easily and painlessly and operates (mostly) how you would expect it to coming from another OS.

Welcome

Pick whatever looks best. It’s not a big of a deal as we make it out to be.

Fedora KDE is also an awesome choice though if you must choose something else.

I recommend LMDE nowadays, but it doesn’t really matter.

KDE Neon or EndeavorOS are also options, depending on whats important to you in a distro. I recommend getting a live usb so you can boot into linux and try it before installing the whole system.

Ignore the noise and go with Ubuntu LTS. When you get comfortable with that, you could try Debian.

You could play it backwards too. Try Debian, if you can’t get it to do what you want, wipe and do Ubuntu LTS. But I do not recommend this path if you have no idea what you’re doing. People underestimate how difficult it is to do simple things when you don’t know how to, no matter how trivial.

Switch to Linux but you have major paradigm you need to pick. Do you want your computer to be bleeding edge but it be a hobby? Or do you want slightly older and rock solid? Or do you have an enterprise support contract? You only pick Ubuntu/RHEL if you have the last one.

I would suggest not judging distros by what the online community says.

Install Ubuntu and see whether you encounter any issues. If not, who cares about what some meme says.

Isn’t that what “classic” confinement is supposed to solve?

And there broken design. They are way overly complex and snapd requires large amounts of permissions. They also add a ton of overhead and make everything slow.

I think they solve the problem the wrong way.

My thoughts exactly 👍.