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I'm really hoping this all forces Ubuntu out as the face of desktop Linux.
It's been pretty low tier for years now, and Canonical just proves corporate backing doesn't guarantee a good distro.
Snap is pretty garbage, default GNOME is horrendous, the repos break every other month, apt is still pretty lame despite being an user upgrade for apt-get, the packages are neither stable nor cutting edge, they change core OS backends like every update which breaks configs and makes documentation obsolete.
I'd like to suggest Fedora as the new goto, but I feel like it's a bit too privacy and FOSS oriented which may scare away new users.
Debian is great but it doesn't have latest packages which isn't optimal as performance upgrades would take time to release or need to be manually installed.
Well, I'd prefer Canonical to fix their shit, instead of forcing immature products onto users. I'm not against snap per se, as there are valid reasons for sandboxing, especially for games (remember when Steam accidentally wiped some user's home folders back in 2015? Sandboxing would have prevented that).
However, in its current state, snap causes just too much friction. For example Firefox can't remember the last used directory for up/downloads, Steam snap will just create a new data directory (forgetting about the games already downloaded), there's no way to allow additional folders (like /net from autofs) in snap apps etc. It's just a myriad of issues which make working with the system unnecessarily complex and frustrating, and there seems to be little progress fixing those.