Honestly, each has a different feel. You just have to get in there and see how it goes. When you land on the right one, you will feel it.

Indeed. It seems that everyone dislikes sysv, but a small group can’t decide on what the better option is.

Pick any distro and just start trying to live your life in there. A lot of beginners, including myself, will distro hop on look and feel. Ubuntu looks neat or Mint is more like windows. Elementry OS has that glossy vibe. Which is all a ton of fun, but look and feel goes out the window when you find out that program you need for work is packaged as an RPM but not DEB and now you gotta install it from source. And don't get me wrong. Always tinker, research and discover solutions. I'm just saying as you get more experienced, the distro hopping decision becomes more focused on ease of use rather than look and feel. So save yourself some time and just focus on using whatever distro you installed. The sooner you start trying to live in a distro the sooner you see what works out of the box, what takes some tinkering, and what is just way harder than it needs to be. As you do research on the issues you run into you may find another distro is better suited to your workflow.

I have some systems with newer hardware that would probably work fine on Debian, but drivers aren't native and it's going to require installing from source/recompiling a newer kernel and troubleshooting for an hour or a day or days lol. In these cases it is easier to install a distro that already has the driver packaged in its repo ready to go.

I will say most of those issues lead me to and have been resolved by Fedora. But I still have a couple systems where Ubuntu is just easier for what those systems are doing because it has specific drivers ready to go easier than Fedora.

If you read this and are over there wanting the complete opposite experience to tinker with everything and have it be as hard as possible... See Alpine linux, which I will master someday lol.

Depends on your needs. If there are packages for everything you need, thats fine. Also, its fine if you don't mind going to the sites and downloading directly. I have a few packages which are easier to use on flathub though.

I also find Gnome Software centre and discover are a lot cleaner than Ubuntu's software used for package management.

Ubuntu these days has 15 years of software support though.

Both are fine in practice.

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micro battles like KDE vs Gnome

I don't think that's a small thing for someone new to Linux.

I prefer Xfce over MATE, KDE, and Cinnamon because I use old computers. I wouldn't recommend modern GNOME.

Also Snap backend is a proprietary crap, unlike flatpak.

systemd vs sysv

Most of systemd-less distros use openrc, dinit or runit, sysv is mostly dead nowadays. Some distros still utilize it tho.

I prefer Mint over Ubuntu because of the default desktop environment. Also, in Mint you can unintall apps directly from menu with right-click-uninstall.

Snap has a better sandbox, but only if you have an AppArmor distro. If your distro of choice uses SELinux or something else, then you're out of luck.

Ubuntu has ads in the OS, mint dosnt.

Installed mint on my parents laptops so they didn't become e-waste when Win11 came out. They have no issues.

Being new(ish) to Linux since that time and I found that the main distortion are better than their sub "flavours". For me anyway. I didn't like Mint LMDE or Kubuntu etc.

Yeah, had the same, but nowadays I have local dedicated VMs for each development project, to mitigate stuff like supply chain attack. The side effect is that it's easier to just copy the VM to the new system. I am thinking though on creating ansible scripts for each use case to be able to "reset" the vm's once in a while.

Really? I find that Fedora is so popular nowadays that most of the reactions are similar to your first sentence. 😀

Ubuntu is fine, especially for a new user it's usually widely supported and has the most resources available.

I can't stand Gnome, though. I'd very much recommend going with Kubuntu.

I tend to agree that the main distribution is better than it's "sub-flavours", but by that logic you should be using Debian, not mint/ubuntu

Linux Mint Debian Edition

Yes Ubuntu is a solid distro, except if you are a hater. Gnome is not suitable for me as a mouse user. Keyboard users like it though.
So I use Kubuntu, as it has the Plasma desktop. Which works really well.

My complaint is that Ubuntu is flirting with becoming proprietary software. Don't get me wrong they're nowhere near closed source or such but still.

That and they have some mechanics that feel counter intuitive to me. (But that's personal taste)

I'd choose mint then. Just because it has a more "traditional windows" (don't think about 11, don't think about 11,.....vom) styled flow to it.

My problem with Ubuntu is the way snaps are so closely tied to the distro. If they were optional, I would have just stuck with it. But I also like Mint anyway. It's just good.

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Yeah. I knew somone would say that. I feel Mint is its own thing though and main stream enough. I meant more the distros that have a webite, and then other flavours or spins on that distro.

I do want to try Debian at some stage but it just feels about old out of the box.

No shade on mint. It is a great distro. It's my recommendation for people switching from windows

Just a heads up, Mint is an Ubuntu system with their customization.

I like the Cinnamon edition, personally. I have a laptop running it, and it's been a very smooth experience.

Actually, just having AppArmor enabled isn't enough. Snap's strict confinement depends on specific out-of-tree AppArmor kernel patches that Canonical bakes into Ubuntu.

If your distro uses the stock Linux kernel, even with AppArmor active (like Debian, Arch, or openSUSE) snapd lacks the necessary kernel-level hooks and drops down to partial confinement. Because of this fallback, non-Ubuntu AppArmor distros don't actually get the full Snap sandbox, they get a degraded version of it.

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If it comes with Ubuntu and you like it, stick with it. At least give it a try. Everyone can tell you why they dislike it, but most distro hate/discussion is pretty minor compared to like Windows versus Linux discussion lol.

just use LMDE

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Use Ubuntu, if you don't like it, try another distro. Don't let your choice of distro be influenced by others. It is your computer, you decide which OS it will run.

A lot of people run Ubuntu and are very happy with it - they just don't post abour it online.

that is certainly a downside.

Snaps run CLI programs. As a server operator, snaps are at times genuinely useful. This sub betrays itself as being mostly hobbyists by not understanding that flatpaks only work for GUI apps.

flatpak run would like a word with you. You can easily just alias to that.

There are many reasons why you don't want to do this. Flatpaks dont touch PATH, the sandboxing makes it difficult, and flathub doesn't distribute CLI programs, being the main ones. So yes, it is technically possible, but so cumbersome as to be unfeasible. Snap on the other hand does implement a pretty frictionless method for running CLI snaps.

Again, you guys are making me defend snap, I'm not even an Ubuntu user. However, when you blindly state things that are incorrect, you denigrate your own position. This whole snaps are slavery echo chamber is extremely tedious. Its no different than people just parroting political opinions they saw on instagram. Use the best tool for the job. If that's Ubuntu, great.