MattKingUSA wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:04 pmLargos wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:53 amI have manjaro installed for a system installed purely for games. Initially I had the KDE spin , it constantly updated to the point of being annoying and after a few weeks something broke in the graphics that ruined games FPS so I replaced it with the XFCE and have had no problems since.
Otherwise I've only ever used Ubuntu. It's never caused me any technical problems. I am not a fan of snaps, so I have disabled them and use mozilla's repository to keep firefox updated. If in the next LTS snap is widespread then I would move.
I believe what I heard is that installing from the package manager gui would install snaps and the terminal didn't. But I don't know if they have changed that. I'm not sure what they're thinking over there. I assume it's expanding their testing base to help refine their server distro. They do make money on the support contracts. But, I have no idea. I just know it's a terrible idea. haha
There are a few programs, Firefox, Thunderbird and I think Chromium also they took out of their apt repositories and are "snap only". They have also made it so if you type "sudo apt install firefox" in that it installs the snap version unless you put in some heavy handed blocks. I had to remove snap and then blacklist it with apt because even if I installed firefox from the mozilla repo it would reinstall the snap version every update. If snap wasn't installed it would re-install snap as well. It was annoying but not as much hassle as switching distro.