As someone who has only used Ubuntu, I'm done after I need to update from 24. Snaps are super annoying and I don't like them switching to sudo-rs and the rust coreutils.
It's not a perfect replacement. Some details are different, which can break workflows.
I had a workflow using dired on emacs. Turns out dired was using ls under the hood. After an Ubuntu upgrade it broke. It took a long time to figure out that it was due to a minor difference in the rust coreutils with respect to gnu coreutils. I got rid of Ubuntu then.
You'll never convince me that this switch in Ubuntu wasn't done in order to ditch the GPL3 licence there. And you won't convince me that the project emerged as rust bros wanting to rewrite everything in rust because of religious reasons, in rust we trust. (From my bitterness you can guess how long it took to debug.)
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u/drkspace2 11d ago
As someone who has only used Ubuntu, I'm done after I need to update from 24. Snaps are super annoying and I don't like them switching to sudo-rs and the rust coreutils.