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You're tearing me apart (Lisa) with these Snap and Unity takes. I'm sure you already know, but there's a Ubuntu Unity flavour now.
I don't miss it that badly. ๐ Unity is written on a properly obsolete stack at this point. It might survive a little while longer but it's eventually nearing the trash bin like Xorg or PulseAudio. I learned a heuristic a long time ago - the bugs are typically fewest with the default flavour. This actually applies to a lot more than Ubuntu's flavours. And so with a heavy heart I learned to live with GNOME Shell years ago and parted ways with Unity. ๐
At least life with Ubuntu LTS has never been better! 22.04 is amazing on so many levels...
I actually agree. My desktop is vanilla GNOME. I'm one of those degenerates that actually like libadwaita. The experience is unified and gorgeous (or a total abomination, as you see fit). That's the beauty of Linux.
Oh, Iโm also super excited about the snap-based Ubuntu Core Desktop. That project, after the egregious bugs it will come with are ironed out, could be amazing. It could give us a Linux desktop with the robustness of Android.
I agree, immutability is the way forward. I used Silverblue for nearly a year, it was awesome. And VanillaOS also looks really cool, but haven't tried it yet. But I'm hard no on the Snaps tho...
That's totally fine. I have no problem with RH going with their own solution. It might prove to be the better one. Personally knowing what I know about both I'm betting on snap to pull off the better result on a technical level. That said the strength of communities has led to adopting different stacks regardless of their technical merits. And that will be fine too. After all Debian and Ubuntu run systemd today don't they. Maintainers were pretty split on that decision. :D