Even putting the OS aside I believe some of the jank is caused by Ubuntu's insistence on trying to usurp applications installed via apt to instead install them via snap. This is why my Firefox install wont allow me to copy text at random, and why I can't drag and drop files into Telegram, and why every file I download has to be dug up from some deep .snap/ directory before any other application can actually load it.
I did vow to migrate to Debian eventually. It never completely happened, as my Lenovo went to Fedora and I eventually decided to eliminate Linux entirely from my home network. But nowadays, Debian is totally mature and able to tackle modern hardware much better than it could in 2004, and I believe that this is attributable to a lot of packaging and integration work by Canonical.
All of these provide good out-of-the-box experience.
Not a bad choice in all seriousness. But maybe in Manjaro/Endeavour versions.
Any suggestions or alternatives to Ubuntu Pro that I should consider?
My Ubuntu powered laptops weren’t any significantly cheaper than a comparable Macbook, and the minor annoyances on Ubuntu were starting to outnumber the benefits.
As long there is a UNIX like available, it is good enough.
Fedora has really been making some great strides over the last decade or so.
After disagreeing with some decisions Canonical/Ubuntu were making, I have been a happy user since 2013 (Fedora 20). Recently started contributing as a package maintainer and quite frankly, Asahi Linux choosing to base on Fedora has just caused me to double down on it being a good call.
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There’s a cookie pop up covering 80% percent of the page, asking about “your tracking settings” with one green encouraging button saying “accept all and visit site” and a white button displaying “manage your tracker settings”
I have AdGuard on iOS with annoyance filters on.
They are also in the process of ditching GNOME and moving to Rust [0]. (For those that get exciting about that sort of thing).
It's not like GNOME is vehemently opposed to Rust, librsvg has already been ported over:
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/librsvg/doc/rsvg/index....
I'm still quite happy using Ubuntu and while it's not perfect, I prefer it to other alternatives I've tried (e.g. Linux Mint is too annoying to update with its "only a backup + fresh reinstall is a safe upgrade" policy, Arch requires too much maintenance, etc.).
It is Ubuntu based, but without much of the crap, and continues the classic Gnome 2 desktop.
The distro formerly known as Zinc, and now known as Asmi, is a good alternative.
LTS version:
https://teejeetech.com/2023/04/22/zinc-22-04-3/
More current release:
https://teejeetech.com/2023/10/14/asmi-23-10-formerly-zinc/
It's Ubuntu, with Snap removed, no Flatpak either, but built-in AppImage support and the improved Nala and Deb-get package management tools for getting and updating native .DEB-packaged software.
And it has Xfce, the least-nonsense-filled light-weight Linux desktop there is.
It's good.
