This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?
I’ve been on Debian on and off since 2021, but finally committed to the platform since April of this year.
Before that I was on OpenBSD from 2011 - 2021 for my desktop.
Prior to that, FreeBSD for many years, followed by a few years of distro-hopping various Linux distros (Slackware, Arch, Fedora, simplyMEPIS, and ZenWalk from memory).
How long have you been on your distribution? Do we have anybody here who has been on their current distro for more than a decade?
You’re the first time I’ve read about snaps being good and fast to start up. On my kids machines, I had problems with Firefox snaps updating and then not launching after updates, and after several times of this consistent behavior, I got fed up and just installed Debian with Flatpaks.
I’m glad it’s working for you.
Yeah, the reception of snaps is very mixed if we’re being honest. But they work surprisingly well for me, considering that pretty much no piece of software was written for a capabilty-based permission system. Unlike mobile OSs like Android, where it’s been possible to give fine grained access to all kinds of system data, sensors and so on for quite a while. Most apps also keep working with refuced functionality if you don’t allow some permissions.