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- linux@sopuli.xyz
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- cross-posted to:
- linux@sopuli.xyz
- linux@lemmy.ml
In-case you didn’t know, Linus Sebastian of LTT media made a video with Linus Torvalds. If you watched the video, what are your thoughts?
BTW, he uses Fedora.
People in here like to hate, but there’s a damn good reason. The majority of the people who are vocal about distribution choice aren’t contributors, long-time users, or experts in the field. A lot of us who are just want a simple, quick installing, porting, “out of the way” (no heavy customizations) and functional distro with a large user base, and a solid team behind it. This means it’s not going to immutable, and it’s not going to to be by Canonical.
A lot of us use Fedora for this exact reason.
Or Mint. I use Mint because it works with minimal hassle.
Mint doesn’t use Gnome or KDE, which is why devs generally steer clear. It’s best to be coding and running the thing the most number of users will be experiencing.
I use Mint because I want the well-paved path of Ubuntu without Snaps. It’s a fair point that KDE would be a better fit with this mindset, but I like Cinnamon better. Same story with Cosmic and Pop, though it was never my cup of tea.
An equally popular and well-funded distro that is basically Kubuntu without snaps would be compelling, but I don’t know of any distro that fits those qualifications.
You can disable Snaps (and enable Flatpak) in Kubuntu from the package manager gui.
i don’t want flatpak either
I’m considering distro-hopping from Kubuntu to Fedora Kinoite. I just am trying to figure out how it fairs in terms of application sandboxing, what they’re doing on supply chain security (re: XZ Utils) and whether I might want to give GNOME another shake.