Ubuntu was dead to me when they started pushing hard on their wall-garden Snap nonsense. Good on Mint’s devs for not just doing the lazy and just going with stock Ubuntu, but instead taking the time to make a base variant with Snap specifically ripped out.

Thanks for that perspective.

I’ve never been able to prove anything and I think there are still good people doing good work in their employ but I can’t help but feel like modern Canonical is an op to make desktop Linux worse.

The update tiers of “Ubuntu Pro” are really gross and probably the final nail in the coffin for me.

I’m one of those strange people who compiles all their own software and trusts nothing, but I still need to know what to recommend, y’know, sane people. I tried the Ubuntu variants out recentlyish on an unused machine and found myself making so many changes and finding packages surprisingly stale, I just I couldn’t recommend people switch to this… I guess I’ll give Fedora a whirl.