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Why are you so against Ubuntu? Fedora and bazzite were recommended by a few other dudes, for immutable and other cool reasons. I'm not afraid of breaking everything, mostly because I operate with a type twice and send once mentality 😅
Ty for the flathub link, I had it by name, but not link
Be really careful with Fedora or Bazzite.
I've been using Fedora for the last few months, because of all the recommendations, and it's been a constant struggle. Fast updates means I can always enjoy the newest bugs and issues. That's ok for a toy system I use to tinker, but not for my main system that I just need to work.
Ubuntu was much more stable and worked better. People hate on it because of their semi-proprietary app delivery system (snap). They feel that Canonical is betraying the open source spirit with it. If you don't care about that, Ubuntu is pretty nice.
Btw, Bazzite is immutable, Fedora is not.
Ubuntu is doing stupid things with packages, replacing them with their proprietary packaging system (called Snap). It has been controversial, the way that they are pushing it, especially since the Snap server is proprietary and non-open source.
A lot of people won't consider using Ubuntu at all for this reason alone, and it makes sense - when you consider that there are so many other distros to choose from these days, Ubuntu just doesn't really provide a whole lot of added value anymore.
It’s not just packages. Ubuntu performance is terrible - it runs so much worse than other distros in VM. I don’t know about spins, but main Ubuntu takes 30 seconds to respond to some button presses whereas it’s nearly instant in other GNOME-using distros given equal or less resources.
That sounds more like a bug than just bad performance.
that's very weird. maybe x11 vs wayland?
I think the main other distro I used in that VM at that time was Fedora 37 at that time, which should have also been using Wayland. I had made the VMs because I was working on Debian packaging for an application I liked and wanted to make sure the modifications I made didn’t break it on other distros.
I’m not necessarily a “Wayland is the embodiment of evil” kind of guy, but I love XFCE and pretty much won’t leave it unless it dies, meaning I’m on Xorg until they port XFWM4.
I still use it for server context, newer apts then Debian usually and no snap stuff I've come across (mostly use docker anyway)