This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix may be about about to win friends and influence people
  • someonesmall@lemmy.ml
    20·
    7 months ago

    Using a de-bloated Ubuntu reminds me of my time on Windows - had to use a bunch of tools to disable all kind of sh*t. Not doing this again, Ubuntu will never be a choice for me.

    • john89@lemmy.ca
      8·
      7 months ago

      Yeah. Glad I’m pretty much done moving my server to Debian.

      Fuck snaps. And fuck paying for security updates, lol.

  • macniel@feddit.de
    19·
    7 months ago

    Either you are a snap free distro or you aren’t. You can’t be somewhere in a middle when the option is binary.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
    13·
    7 months ago

    “nearly Snap-free”, hmm. I think I used Xubuntu briefly, but that was way before Snap was a thing.

  • john89@lemmy.ca
    4·
    7 months ago

    I’m honestly thinking about going back to XFCE after years with KDE.

    Idk, it just seems really buggy to me now. The transition to 6 isn’t going as smoothly as it should, but it’s about what I’d expect.

    I keep getting weird freezes where the dock stops working.

    • myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website
      2·
      7 months ago

      Oh good, it’s not just me with weird freezing problems. I often see individual windows hang for a good while as well, and then KWin just restarts in place.

    • WormFood@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      I love kde, I love the file picker, I love window management, I love dolphin, I love the panels, I love Kate, etc… but every time I have to switch to a new tty to restart kwin, part of my soul dies

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    Xubuntu is still my distro of choice.

    Removing snap and installing flatpak is two commands away.

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    7 months ago

    A minimal Gentoo install contains less than 30 packages and fits in 1GB of disk (no GUI, though). If you more than double either of those numbers, you’re not “minimal”.

    • nfsu2@feddit.cl
      3·
      7 months ago

      (no GUI, though).

      That is the point. Unless Gentoo has a user-friendly graphical installer that offers minimal dekstop options that does everything automatically for you there is no point of comparison.