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by qbasic_forever 1150 days ago
I bailed after 20.04 and have been a happy Pop_OS (Ubuntu minus all the snaps out of the box), Fedora and Arch user ever since. Definitely try Pop as it's the most direct move from Ubuntu--really the only diff you'll notice is a different default system theme and background picture.
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ekianjo 1150 days ago
Pop mixes flatpaks with regular packages and its very confusing to understand which is which
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gcarvalho 1150 days ago
That's true for the store (Pop Shop), but not for the CLIs (apt and flatpak). If an app has only a .deb or flatpak version, it's not clear which will be installed. If there are multiple versions, you get a dropdown menu to select one. Unfortunately, some apps are listed more than once (different packagers, I assume).

Ubuntu, on the other hand, will sneakily install snaps via apt.

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christophilus 1150 days ago
Happy Fedora user, here. I love it. I do miss the AUR from Arch, though. I miss absolutely nothing about Ubuntu.
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