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Re: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

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I used to use Ubuntu for everything and was very happy in the massive Ubuntu ecosystem with a .deb for everything till I was forced to use Snap a few releases ago for installing even some basic utils I used on a daily basis. I then had Snap constantly hang on installs and just break for no apparent reason and waste my time debugging it. It didn't "just work" anymore.

Swapped to Arch and haven't looked back yet, Arch took me a lot more work to get set up but once it was it's been pretty invisible, which is how I like my OS to be.

I'd probably happily swap back to Ubuntu if I read somewhere that Snap was removed entirely/canceled or something.

Re: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

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of course the only comments so far are people complaining that Ubuntu sucks and their $PREFERRED_DISTRO is better

I for one think Steam as a snap is a great idea, and was pleasantly surprised with them taking the feedback about the Firefox snap to heart and actually putting in the work to speed it up.

I was gonna install 22.04.1 tonight (finally got fedup with Windows) but I'm gonna try this tonight instead and definitely give the Steam snap a try. The less I need to boot into Windows to play PC games the better.

Congratulations to the team on another release.

Re: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

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Everyday is like a new Ubuntu release on Arch Linux and in 8 years I've only had to boot into a rescue environment one time and it was due to me using a non-standard configuration.

Idk, I've had systemd-resolved eat itself because of an update that added some new required config that I missed when running an update. Very annoying when dealing with headless servers. Arch is fine for laptops, but I would not put anything that I rely on daily on Arch and I certainly wouldn't want to maintain a fleet of Arch VMs/containers/whatever

Re: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

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I used to use Ubuntu for everything and was very happy in the massive Ubuntu ecosystem with a .deb for everything till I was forced to use Snap a few releases ago for installing even some basic utils I used on a daily basis. I then had Snap constantly hang on installs and just break for no apparent reason and waste my time debugging it. It didn't "just work" anymore. Swapped to Arch and haven't looked back yet, Arch…

I think you could have a very polished desktop with Fedora and flatkpaks (no daemon) without much work, but I'm glad Arch is working for you.

Re: Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

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I used to use Ubuntu for everything and was very happy in the massive Ubuntu ecosystem with a .deb for everything till I was forced to use Snap a few releases ago for installing even some basic utils I used on a daily basis. I then had Snap constantly hang on installs and just break for no apparent reason and waste my time debugging it. It didn't "just work" anymore. Swapped to Arch and haven't looked back yet, Arch…

Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu but does not use snap. Doing "a lot more work" to install an OS does not sound appealing.
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