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Hello everyone! I would like to know why there seems to be some dislike toward Ubuntu within the Linux community. I would like you to share your reasons for why you like Ubuntu or, on the contrary, why you don't. Thanks 🙇

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Snaps are the worst, but there are relatively easy ways to rip that shit out

Having said that, for the rest I like Ubuntu reasonably okay. Going to try KDE neon which should be a bit newer

[–] soundconjurer@4bear.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@phoenixz @liop7k , I hated snaps on the desktop, but I find myself loving them for my server. On desktop, yeah the orchestra of protocols and desktop intercommunication suffered a lot when I used snaps. But on a server, seems to allow me to be the laziest administrator I have ever been, only needing to update my ultra minimal Ubuntu OS.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Apt lays allowed me to be lazy, never had an issue with -by now- thousands of servers over 20 years