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Last time I touched an Ubuntu system, I had to diagnose why the machine suddenly had no available disk space.

1.5TB in /var/log

All from the Firefox snap package complaining every millisecond about some trivial Snap permission.

I'm glad I chose an OS without goddamn Snap. It's been unadulterated pain every time I've ever interacted with it.

Trisquel 12 Mate -codenamed Ecne- with the Xanmod kernel to cover propietary drivers, that's a more libre start than Ubuntu. If everything works with the libre kernel, you can toss the Xanmod kernel in the spot.

YES! Snap drove me to debian sid and haven't looked back. Snap is probably fine, but don't force me to use it.

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