Mostly Snap. I’m not fundamentally opposed to a new package manager (I’m fine with Flatpak), but it has a proprietary store that can’t easily be circumvented like you can with Flatpak’s main store, and snap-packaged applications had kinda bad performance for a long time (IDK what the current state is on Ubuntu 26.04, but it’s gone on for way too long).
They also have a history of making decisions that are obviously not what the users want (e.g. the Amazon integration they did - if this is the first time you hear about it, look it up; it’s pretty much a case study of everything that’s wrong with how Ubuntu is being run), which gives me very little confidence in how they’re going to handle AI/LLMs - Canonical is a commercial entity, after all.
I’m in the process of fully switching to Debian, which is at least a fully community-developed distro and has come a long way since the time when Canonical took Debian and added a huge amount of user-friendly streamlining. I might change my mind depending on the outcome of Debian’s ongoing “how do we deal with AI”-discussion, though.
Yeah, the sneaky crap with snaps makes me want to avoid them all by itself, I left Windows to get away from that kind of forced decision. The Amazon thing was pretty bad too.
The last straw came when I evaluated it vs Debian for a home server, first update after install and it threw a scare warning making it sound like my system would be insecure if I didn’t pay for pro, and I’m just so not into that kind of manipulative bullshit. I shut down the VM and deleted it immediately and I’ll never touch them by choice again.
Mostly Snap. I’m not fundamentally opposed to a new package manager (I’m fine with Flatpak), but it has a proprietary store that can’t easily be circumvented like you can with Flatpak’s main store, and snap-packaged applications had kinda bad performance for a long time (IDK what the current state is on Ubuntu 26.04, but it’s gone on for way too long).
They also have a history of making decisions that are obviously not what the users want (e.g. the Amazon integration they did - if this is the first time you hear about it, look it up; it’s pretty much a case study of everything that’s wrong with how Ubuntu is being run), which gives me very little confidence in how they’re going to handle AI/LLMs - Canonical is a commercial entity, after all.
I’m in the process of fully switching to Debian, which is at least a fully community-developed distro and has come a long way since the time when Canonical took Debian and added a huge amount of user-friendly streamlining. I might change my mind depending on the outcome of Debian’s ongoing “how do we deal with AI”-discussion, though.
Yeah, the sneaky crap with snaps makes me want to avoid them all by itself, I left Windows to get away from that kind of forced decision. The Amazon thing was pretty bad too.
The last straw came when I evaluated it vs Debian for a home server, first update after install and it threw a scare warning making it sound like my system would be insecure if I didn’t pay for pro, and I’m just so not into that kind of manipulative bullshit. I shut down the VM and deleted it immediately and I’ll never touch them by choice again.
I’ve been on Debian since the start of the year and been having a grand old time. I rarely think about it.
Thanks!