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Looking to make the switch - Advice?
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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Your point of Ubuntu guides is one reason why I settled on Ubuntu this time around. I didn't want to have to dig deeper to make things work when there's usually Ubuntu install instructions. Granted they can often be just .deb, but Debian is a bit too far for me (I tried it a number of years ago and it was too "Linux" for me. But Mint (which I do like, and actually have on a spare laptop) is too Windows-like and doesn't feel like I can alter it like I want. I guess I'm just saying that Ubuntu has always hit that sweet spot for me, and this time around I've stuck with it and very rarely boot into Windows now. So when I see everyone recommending everything else but not mine, I wonder if I missed a memo.
Ubuntu isn't really made for regular users, canonical doesn't care about you, they're in it for the server / enterprise money; they'll regularly take decisions that go against your best interest like pushing snaps and adding ads to the terminal.
These days you don't need .deb files with how ubiquitous flatpaks are becoming so there's no real reason to stick to ubuntu anymore. If you like the ubuntu release model, fedora should be the closest alternative. It's still sponsored by a corporation, but they have a loose hand over the distribution.
I like the long-term overlapping security release that server-first focus gives me. I rely on it even. My daily driver is built from Ubuntu server headless LTS, X11, Awesomewm. My automation really only needs updates every 5 years, and I get the option to update it every 2. The same script I wrote to remove the esm motd message 10 years ago still works. I don't know what else people want from canonical.
I agree that Ubuntu is a solid distro and would recommend it before Mint, it's just not at the top of the list anymore. But if you're happy with what you have, that's all that matters.