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Makes sense to me, but I'd be much more excited to go back to not having the snap directory shoved in my face.

I left Ubuntu because of snap - and I don't see myself going back. It's funny, I feel like eventually every distribution has to do something to irritate long-term users, but endear themselves to others. It's part of a weird growth phase.

What distro do you use now?

Currently I'm on Manjaro. I went through my post-Ubuntu cycle and looked into Gentoo, Mint, Solus, and FreeBSD again. Basically Manjaro made running Arch painless. I'm happy enough for now.

Interesting cos I been looking at manjaro, kde flavour. Bit tired of all the little bugs in ubuntu. Wanted to try arch.

Give it a go. Worst case, VM it. That's how I did my evaluations.

Shoved it on my laptop, killed off the kubuntu partition. Man it’s so much better. No screen tearing out of the box!!! Just works.

Tho I cannot get proper VS Code installed :/

Install yay, and then use it to manage vscode. I rely on the AUR.

I personally don't use it, and was born barely before its first release, but I believe Slackware is just as it ever was..

Its not perfect but there are some ways to hide it during normal use.

1. Create a file in your home called .hidden with one line "snap" to hide it in the file browser.

2. You can add --hide=snap to your ls alias to hide folders by that name.

I’ve heard good things about pop os. Have you tried and liked any of the others? It was a bit unnerving to have my Firefox windows change all of a sudden due to upgrade.

Pop OS is great. I've used it when I need a laptop to Just Work quickly, and I have a non-technical family member who has been using it for about 2 years now with zero issues.

Pop OS is great. Of course I had some issues with UEFI stuff (since they don't use GRUB) but their website had great tutorials for NVMe SSDs. And you have flatpak instead of snap (so no snap folder in your case). But most importantly, they have a killer tiling extension for Gnome. It is superb.

Pop OS also has a great WIP tiling wm if you want something that doesn't require you to replace all the other creature comforts like sway or i3.

I use ubuntu and have disabled everything snap related. Works well.

How do you install apps only available in Ubuntu as snaps?

I don't know of any. I do use flatpak whenever I can.

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