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Out of interest, what have people moved to? I'm a pretty happy Ubuntu user (and the Snaps issue doesn't really bother me personally), but I'm curious if I'm missing out on something better elsewhere?

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I've also been a happy Ubuntu user for a long time, but with the direction Canonical is going, it's become pretty evident that sooner or later I'm gonna have to move on.

I recently gave the new Debian a try on my laptop, and I've been happy with it so far. I've also been pleasantly surprised that it's noticeably snappier than Ubuntu for some reason.

My main machine is still running Ubuntu, but when the time comes to reinstall or upgrade, especially if the snap situation becomes even worse, I will probably switch to Debian entirely.

I used Ubuntu as my daily driver for 14 years. I'm now on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. A stable rolling distro plus automatic Btrfs snapshots out of the box.

Ditto for me, except, it was only around 1.5 years on (K)Ubuntu before I got fed up and left. Tumbleweed is such an amazing distro; I don't think I'll be distro hopping for a very long time, if ever.

For me, ArchLinux. It was more painful at first (worried about installing it the first time), but the other side of the coin is that I understand my system much, much better. ArchWiki is a jewel.

And yeah, it was because of Snap.

I ironically get the most stability out of arch. Like you said, you front load a lot of the effort. Tweaking, setting up important packages, etc. Once that is done, as long as you update it really gets out of your way. Occasionally something will break and there will be a notice on the front page of the arch site.

Ubuntu suffers something that effects windows really badly. In an attempt to polish, you obfuscate a lot of moving parts. When one of those parts break down, it becomes far harder to repair.

I also understand the irony of wanting people to switch to Linux then being against a polished distro.

After distro-hopping for years, while still also using Windows for gaming, I have settled on Mint Cinnamon on my two circa-2010s laptops and the same on my new-ish Dell laptop at work (nothing we do requires Windows).

I gave away my gaming computer to a teen whose mainboard broke. I don't miss Windows one bit.

May I ask how are you feeling about your trackpad on Mint? On my HP the scrolling acceleration is way too fast, one scroll and I'm at the end of the page I'm trying to scroll on. Mint does not provide any options to change trackpad scroll speed only trackpad movement speed.

My parents have a Lenovo yoga with mint and overall everything but the track pad are fine, diagonal move isn't smooth and seems discrete, I haven't been able to fix it by changing drivers and config over the holidays.

Interestingly, this doesn't show in live mode, only after install.

I moved two startups to Debian Stable.

Ubuntu Snap wasn't the only reason, but one of them.

Fedora, Debian, Arch seem to be common replacements.

I have two laptops, one with mint/x11/cinnamon that is working well, quite happy with. Another with fedora/wayland/kde and am mostly happy, although synergy/barrier doesn’t support wayland(may not be possible) which is a big problem on my desk. :-/

I've moved to dumping binaries straight into /opt folders.

Honestly, this whole "if it's not a .deb it's a nightmare" mentality is baffling to me.

I used Ubuntu for many years, and I switched to Fedora about a year ago, and I've been really enjoying the experience.

I've used ubuntu server for over a decade. I moved servers to debian and enjoyed it. My laptops have always been Arch.

My distro-hopping ended at Fedora Silverblue.

NixOS and never look back.

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