I managed to get the right deal and now have a new laptop. I have more or less been exclusively using Ubuntu for the past 12 years or so, but the whole Snap updating system really annoys me. I am considering a change. Years ago, I used Linux Mint (I still use Cinnamon on Ubuntu), but I was wondering how it is now? I remember switching to Ubuntu because of stability problems, but I assume this would be fixed. Anyone have recent experiences with Mint, or have other distro recommendations? I definitely want to move away from Snap.
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@DrEvanGowan been running Mint Cinnamon for a while on my home media server. Been extremely stable - only problem was an update to docker that broke my casaOS containers briefly.
@DrEvanGowan When I get to pick, I usually go with Debian, Trisquel, or Arch.
@thomzane I have always heard people have praises about Arch, maybe I should look into that too, lol.
@DrEvanGowan Arch uses a radically different philosophy for package maintenance. Instead of having an army of software maintainers backporting security patches to a fixed version for years, they let upstream do their thing for the most part unless something big breaks. The benefit is that you get updates packages faster and get to participate in the active development of the software that you use. The drawback is that things break every now and then.
@thomzane To be honest, that sounds like a recipe for breaking things! Maybe when I was younger, I would have gone for it, but I don't have time to deal with a broken system.
@DrEvanGowan That's exactly why I don't use it on all of my machines.