Hey!

It might be kind of controversy take. But just came to my mind. Many times we hear, "but canonical force you to use snap!"

Really?

What you mean by forcing snaps or anything? For me... It's that, you have no other choice. So basically, this take from "snap haters" or "ubuntu/canonical haters" is wrong... You can always remove snapd, right ? :)

• "But when you install Firefox via apt, it's going to install snap!"

Yeah. But can't you install deb package? Can't you install from Mozilla tarball? Of course you can! Only if you want or strong enough. There is more tutorials how to switch Firefox from snap to deb in Ubuntu on the net, than Firefox versions :P

• "But why I need to do this, even?!"

Well. Different problems, require different solutions. There is many solutions, Canonical as a Ubuntu maintainer, decided for this solution to issue with Firefox packaging, with dependency issues, with keeping your software up-to-date while maintaining LTS releases, and so on :) This is their decision.

I think this is fair take. Everyone have choices. Linux is too open to force anything on anybody.

And my last thought :P

Want to see what force means? Try to change bootloader on Windows, hahaha :D

Yeah. So, please people chill and enjoy what you like!

Cannonical seriously needs to get their Snap Store s**t together. Multiple apps are broken due to overly restricted permissions or missing files in the snap package. Krita missing the application launcher icon. Inkscape can't export because the export filename is greyed out and can't be edited. These issues don't exist in the appimage/flatpak versions.

This is lubuntu and when terminal asked for password I can not type anything and if I press enter it just says password wrong

@ubuntu I’m facing every frequency lacks in Ubuntu and also taking much time in boot as compared to normal boot

Anybody can fix and give me alternate for this?

Thanks in advance

I smell snake oil.

Tell me Ubuntu devs: why are you following Windows????

I had a 2204LTS with crypt and lvm.

Updating with do-release-upgrade, and now: gave up waiting for suspend/resume and I only have a busybox console blinking.

Shame on you.

I had to go back to 9.10 to get back the grid-lines on my spreadsheets and a lot of other detail. Either Canonical has messed with the resolution or there is something weird related to my video card. I tried various adjustments to the resolution and color settings without success.

Has anyone else out there had similar problems? Is there a solution?

Edit (one month later): My nephew said it might by my ATI video card. Apparently their drivers don't work well with Ubuntu. I borrowed an NVidia card and the problem was solved. Hoo-ray.

I've had enough, after 3 years of giving it a try, and eventually loving it, it's done for me.

Today I've had my 1000th login loop, out of nowhere and that's it for me... It's always a different issue, always something I have to search for for hours, ruining my day, work,... I've had it...

Ubuntu is not consumer friendly, it's for developers (I'm a front end developer) or software programmers...

Now I still need to resolve the login loop issue, so I can put my important files somewhere safe and download a boot able windows version... Still need help here, trust me, I think I tried almost everything...

I have recently returned to ubuntu after a dark few years of using macOS and windows for work purposes.

I have been plagued with problems I never had I. The past. Software installs just never working through Software centre, snaps acting slow and buggy.

The whole experience now seems clunky and awkward.

Sadly, I think I'm going to have to migrate to Mint, and configure KDE because I can't stand cinnamon or any of the mint aesthetic.

I know I'm not the only one having these issues and jumping ship, just wanted to publicly mourn what used be a very pleasant OS.

EDIT: Cool as in quick and easy installation and a desktop that works with minimal effort. Sometimes I want to spend a week tinkering with an OS just to get it working, but mostly l just want a daily driver that I can recommend to people who don't have the inclination or patience to run an OS that's a part time maintenance job. Surely as a community we're at a point where that is a realistic expectation?