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I've used Ubuntu since going full-time Linux desktop ~2006, but for many of the same reasons in here, jumped from Ubuntu to Arch circa 2018 and haven't looked b

I've used Ubuntu since going full-time Linux desktop ~2006, but for many of the same reasons in here, jumped from Ubuntu to Arch circa 2018 and haven't looked back. I use Ubuntu or fedora/cent for disposable server vm's as needed/desired, but any primary boxen I interface directly with every day is Arch.

segasaturn 4y ago
I'm one of those freaks who actually liked Unity, especially towards the end it felt like such a snappy and efficient desktop interface. The switch to GNOME killed what differentiated Ubuntu on the desktop for me.
- max-m 4y ago
  I'm one of those freaks who use Unity to this day. :) In the beginning Unity was rough, but the last version was actually quite comfortable to use. At the moment I'm daily driving Ubuntu 20.04 with root on ZFS, but I'm debating really hard whether I should distro hop or not. I dislike Canonical's insistence on "snap", their advertisements in "apt" output, ... But on the other hand Ubuntu gave me mostly a "it just works" experience on my desktop for multiple years. For a while I ran Arch on another system and had quite the opposite experience. Upstream broke dependencies at least twice for example, so a lengthy session of "how the heck do I fix this" ensued.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  When Ubuntu has finally killed Gnome 2, I looked at Unity and said, no, I want gnome and booted Gnome 3. ... and after just a few minutes of using it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad! ... and after a few years it kinda grew on me, so it was a pity that Canonical killed it.
strken 4y ago
I wish there was something like Arch, except with point releases of the core operating system like FreeBSD's world but everything else on a rolling release.
- aquova 4y ago
  Perhaps EndeavourOS? I haven't done anything other than mess around in it, but it's Arch-based with some of the core applications (kernel, mesa/nvidia drivers, firefox, etc.) on a point release system.
- speed_spread 4y ago
  Not because this is a Fedora topic but Fedora Silverblue (or Kinoite if you prefer KDE) could be pretty much that if you create Arch or Rawhide toolbox container(s) for your development environment(s).

segasaturn 4y ago

I'm one of those freaks who actually liked Unity, especially towards the end it felt like such a snappy and efficient desktop interface. The switch to GNOME killed what differentiated Ubuntu on the desktop for me.

max-m 4y ago
I'm one of those freaks who use Unity to this day. :) In the beginning Unity was rough, but the last version was actually quite comfortable to use. At the moment I'm daily driving Ubuntu 20.04 with root on ZFS, but I'm debating really hard whether I should distro hop or not. I dislike Canonical's insistence on "snap", their advertisements in "apt" output, ... But on the other hand Ubuntu gave me mostly a "it just works" experience on my desktop for multiple years. For a while I ran Arch on another system and had quite the opposite experience. Upstream broke dependencies at least twice for example, so a lengthy session of "how the heck do I fix this" ensued.
Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
When Ubuntu has finally killed Gnome 2, I looked at Unity and said, no, I want gnome and booted Gnome 3. ... and after just a few minutes of using it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad! ... and after a few years it kinda grew on me, so it was a pity that Canonical killed it.

strken 4y ago

I wish there was something like Arch, except with point releases of the core operating system like FreeBSD's world but everything else on a rolling release.

aquova 4y ago
Perhaps EndeavourOS? I haven't done anything other than mess around in it, but it's Arch-based with some of the core applications (kernel, mesa/nvidia drivers, firefox, etc.) on a point release system.
speed_spread 4y ago
Not because this is a Fedora topic but Fedora Silverblue (or Kinoite if you prefer KDE) could be pretty much that if you create Arch or Rawhide toolbox container(s) for your development environment(s).