@caekislove@verita84 Also I've never met anyone who actually liked the Ubuntu Snap thing. Everyone hates it and wants it off their systems. They use Homebrew for developer CLIs and Flatpak for GUIs (and Flatpak is awful too, just slightly less awful than Snap).
@victor@verita84 Pop!OS is Ubuntu with most of the bullshit removed. I recommend it if you need Nvidia drivers to "just work". You can even install the Snap store if you REALLY need snaps.
@caekislove@verita84 I may have to give it another try. I didn't like it the first time since it ran everything in Flatpak containers or whatever, and things like VS Codium had trouble accessing places on disk that I wanted to get to. Maybe I just need to get good and learn how to tweak it to my liking.
@verita84 Yes, this is all about them going all in on snaps. I was researching that lxd move. It's probably a reaction to Debian porting it outside of snaps. It has the apache license so its safe but Ubuntu could easily close source some upcoming management tools. No big loss since you can use virt-manager to manage containers and theres other ones that work too. Red hat really opened the doors for all this crap.
@victor@caekislove@verita84 If you like Debian and Cinnamon wait for LMDE6 to come out in about a month. It's Debian with the linux mint tools and the desktop environment gets all the cinnamon updates throughout its lifecycle.
I run popOS as a daily driver. I've had very little if any trouble with it, but its still pretty Ubuntu flavored which I'm sure is a no-go for some people, really doesn't bother me tho
@spitfire@caekislove@verita84 I'll have to try it! The only real requirement I have is that it needs to "just work" for work purposes. I can't wake up every morning to some random new problem that I'm going to spend two hours to fix.
Ubuntu has been mostly solid for me for years and years, so I've been able to forgive a lot of the Canonical shenanigans. They've been really ramping up the corporatism lately though, so it may be time to move on.