Yup.

Yeah probably. Installing Mint and GNOME or Plasma on there will be waay easier.

Haha no, not even KDE devs use it.

I am on Fedora Kinoite and happy. But this was about Ubuntu, and Fedora simply serves a different use case. Kubuntu and KDE Neon are both Ubuntu LTS.

I would never use dnf Fedora again, it is an unstable mess.

I am on Kinoite since a year or more? Works great. Fedoras Packages are awesome, stable and often better than Uwuntu or OpenSUS

But dnf upgrades simply were extremely unreliable.

It doesnt matter how your distro looks, thats the desktop.

It matters how it backups, upgrades, recovers.

It is. I also wonder if there was a model that accomplishes the same thing but with less image copying.

Like, make snapshots every day, but manual installs are not snapshotted but still tracked with ostree. So you can revert them, display them transparently etc.

Appimages are crap too, but at least there is progress with AppMan, repos and that sandboxing solution.

Snaps are only sandboxed with Apparmor and snapd only allows a single repo (which contained malware multiple times) so get the hell off my lawn XD

True one can install it on Mint. But at that level, just

• install Kubuntu
• add timeshift
• run unsnap (removes snap, installs flatpak and flathub, installs apps as flatpaks)
• add the new official deb repo for Firefox
• remove a possibly installed Firefox Flatpak (has missing sandboxing) and install with apt

Linux mint has no GNOME or KDE variant, so while they fix many Ubuntu issues, they are still on XOrg.

Installs Thunderbird snap and the dialog crashes, on 12 identical upgrades

Lol, thanks for that info

Uhm thats a pepper and why is that a GIMP thing?

Too busy to answer

Huh?

I found that out way too late, but luckily didnt need root.

Yes, AOSP sucks, but at least its damn secure

I mean I could list you at least 5 things that kinda suck on Fedora Atomic. But yes the core principle is so much better.

Multiple reasons why this is not a good option.

• no fwupd
• no flatpak
• still requires sudo
• mint uses XOrg and is very limited

I mean…

They have GUI system upgrades, this is kind of a pain in Debian

Okay, now I updated 12 laptops from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 and…

• it always hangs at “swap deb Thunderbird with snap”, like, always. 12 times.
• the wallpaper is gone after the upgrade, every single time
• there are like 10 buttons to click
• you need to be a sudo user (the updater shows but just vanishes when being a nonsudoer!)
• on 2 machines some random repo issues caused a silent error. Needed to apt update in the terminal, fixed
• there are tons of snap packages, and all are outdated, yay! Installing those on a sudo account causes them to fail on the nonsudo account.

Damn this is bad. And this is like, the best of the best distros?

Doubt that. Fedora Atomic has way more potential, while only being user friendly as uBlue.

Yes, I also dont understand why Peertube works so badly. It is one of the platforms with the most quality content, but its decentralization really makes it require an app.

sepiasearch.org helps here, to connect all instances and index them

Oh cool didnt know that

Grayjay and Freetube are both fine but different.

For some reason, Freetube currently works well, Grayjay needs iOS fallback and barely works.

Grayjay follows the bigger, already implemented idea of combining multiple platforms. This is a great UX and smooth fallback when Youtube blocks again, or permanently.

Accounts can link multiple platforms, so switching is easier.

It also allows commenting, livechat, on the platforms and has on the polycentric protocol, connecting all others.

Also, it has Sponsorblock integration.