I moved to Ubuntu for my daily driver this year in February. The first thing that happened was having problems with "snap" installs. The second thing that I did was to find a script to "This script will permanently destroy and reset all state in snapd" and specifically use dpkg and apt going forward.
Ubuntu for me has gone too far to the proprietary side for my liking. Now I use Linux Mint Xfce 21.2, as my daily drive. If Canonical said goodbye to Snaps altogether, then maybe I would consider it? As it stands though cannot see them doing so.
@@slim_2280 Yeah I put it on metal on a secondary laptop. Main rig remains on MX of course. I changed from Wayland back to X11 on the login screen so that my screencaster (in this case Webcamoid) would record the desktop, which it wouldn't do under wayland.
@@stationsixtyseven67 I'm soon to get new desks to have my other computers on and be able to install on bare metal instead of Virtualbox. Saving up at the mo
Yeah but for a brand new user, who is not tech savvy and just wants to get away from Windows altogether. Does not know about Terminal Commands, gdebi, Eddy which is a Flatpak app I believe? Has to stick with Snap Packages that do not work or install properly. It then puts Linux into a bad light. Did you know about the terminal and gdebi when you first started your Linux Journey? A lot of people out there that didn't, including myself all those years ago when I first started using Linux. I had been using Windows XP before finding out from my brother, that there is a free alternative called Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Back then Ubuntu was small in ISO size, so could easily fit it on a CD. As USB sticks were so expensive back then, it was cheaper to use blank CDs. Chucked in at the deep end, without any help whatsoever, having to resort to reinstalling when things went bad, as did not know about online help, as any help to fix my Windows XP from running into crashes, meant parting with cash, being conned left right and centre, from a Multi Billion Dollar company Microsoft. Setting Ubuntu up back then with NVIDIA drivers was a pain in the butt, as the resolution had set itself to 800x600. On a CRT monitor (Cathode-Ray-Tube) So ending up counting how many pushes on the tab key inside the NVIDIA settings window to change resolution from a massive 800x600 to 1024x768. No such thing as High Definition back then, though saying that CRT's actually had 1080, 720 resolutions, just we did not know about them. Then finally counting from where we change the resolution, to the apply button, that was off the screen. Five reinstalls later, lots of note taking and finally a stable system. So yes I know Linux is far easier these days, but to not have Deb files able to be installed with App Centre is not good. Like Abhi said in his weekly news letter, it's not that he's against Canonical not supporting Deb files anymore, it is the way they sneakily went about it, slowly pushing them out of Ubuntu altogether and replacing apt with Snap packages. You enter in your Terminal sudo apt install chromium and it is a Snap instead of a Deb file. Okay so Canonical can do whatever with their Distribution, but to allow broken Snap Packages, not knowing where or who made them, yet everyone moaning about Debian packages being not trustworthy, at least they work.
I moved to Ubuntu for my daily driver this year in February. The first thing that happened was having problems with "snap" installs. The second thing that I did was to find a script to "This script will permanently destroy and reset all state in snapd" and specifically use dpkg and apt going forward.
That is what I do with Xubuntu installs. Totally remove Snapd altogether.
I got annoyed at ubuntu and switched to debian a while ago..
Ubuntu for me has gone too far to the proprietary side for my liking. Now I use Linux Mint Xfce 21.2, as my daily drive. If Canonical said goodbye to Snaps altogether, then maybe I would consider it? As it stands though cannot see them doing so.
Xorg works just fine BTW.
Doesn't in a Virtual machine, though Virtualbox has not been updated to include 24.04 in it's options.
@@slim_2280 Yeah I put it on metal on a secondary laptop. Main rig remains on MX of course. I changed from Wayland back to X11 on the login screen so that my screencaster (in this case Webcamoid) would record the desktop, which it wouldn't do under wayland.
@@stationsixtyseven67 I'm soon to get new desks to have my other computers on and be able to install on bare metal instead of Virtualbox. Saving up at the mo
Its the only way to install veracrypt.
Deb file I take it? Not Snap?
@@slim_2280 yes deb file.
I have been able to install .deb files did it yesterday. Try the terminal.
Yeah but for a brand new user, who is not tech savvy and just wants to get away from Windows altogether. Does not know about Terminal Commands, gdebi, Eddy which is a Flatpak app I believe? Has to stick with Snap Packages that do not work or install properly. It then puts Linux into a bad light. Did you know about the terminal and gdebi when you first started your Linux Journey? A lot of people out there that didn't, including myself all those years ago when I first started using Linux. I had been using Windows XP before finding out from my brother, that there is a free alternative called Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Back then Ubuntu was small in ISO size, so could easily fit it on a CD. As USB sticks were so expensive back then, it was cheaper to use blank CDs.
Chucked in at the deep end, without any help whatsoever, having to resort to reinstalling when things went bad, as did not know about online help, as any help to fix my Windows XP from running into crashes, meant parting with cash, being conned left right and centre, from a Multi Billion Dollar company Microsoft. Setting Ubuntu up back then with NVIDIA drivers was a pain in the butt, as the resolution had set itself to 800x600. On a CRT monitor (Cathode-Ray-Tube) So ending up counting how many pushes on the tab key inside the NVIDIA settings window to change resolution from a massive 800x600 to 1024x768.
No such thing as High Definition back then, though saying that CRT's actually had 1080, 720 resolutions, just we did not know about them. Then finally counting from where we change the resolution, to the apply button, that was off the screen. Five reinstalls later, lots of note taking and finally a stable system.
So yes I know Linux is far easier these days, but to not have Deb files able to be installed with App Centre is not good. Like Abhi said in his weekly news letter, it's not that he's against Canonical not supporting Deb files anymore, it is the way they sneakily went about it, slowly pushing them out of Ubuntu altogether and replacing apt with Snap packages. You enter in your Terminal sudo apt install chromium and it is a Snap instead of a Deb file. Okay so Canonical can do whatever with their Distribution, but to allow broken Snap Packages, not knowing where or who made them, yet everyone moaning about Debian packages being not trustworthy, at least they work.
@@slim_2280 I understand that point and I agree if they made it easy like windows then there would be more users..