alt Hacker NewsI don't like snap and have always uninstalled it in the past. However, that gets more difficult in newer releases, so probably not a sustainable path. Still searching for the distro I could install instead of Xubuntu for friends and family who don't want or need the latest and greatest.
The main reason for my dislike is the closed source nature of snap distribution. App isolation is important and not easy. That bugs will happen and be fixed there is natural. Happens with every other system that was supposed to increase security, too.
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Worth looking at Fedora. Been using it for work and play for over a decade and it's never let me down. Absolutely solid.
Pop!_OS is basically Ubuntu without snap. Debian is fine, but for some reason it is ugly. Like, you can style and configure it with a thousand options, but simply fails to have a nice theme and UI out of the box.
I love multipass. It is a simple no BS virtualization solution and probably the best thing to come out of Ubuntu after LXD.
But I can't use it. You know why? Because despite being open source Canonical wont tell you how to compile it and install it as a standalone program. Instead all their documentation says "install via snap"... even if your are on fedora or debian or arch:
https://github.com/canonical/multipass
Snap needs to die, it is hurting everybody including canonical
Have you tried Debian with the XCFE desktop? Should be pretty similar to Xubuntu (but without Snap, of course)