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How bad is Ubuntu?
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I used Ubuntu for 10 ish years before moving to Fedora. I switched because the Kde packages were seemingly years out of date with no idea of when the new versions would hit the Apt repos.
Seems like a lot of Ubuntu packages are old compared to Fedora since I’ve experienced way fewer bugs now adays.
Snaps were bad but I never was forced to use them, had it purged and disabled the whole time.
Completely off topic, but: I've been trying Fedora (KDE spin) for a few months now, and I'm flabbergasted at how unusable the distro version (not the Flatpak) of Firefox is. I think it's a codec issue as I've checked Firefox is running in wayland mode, but:
Meanwhile, the Microsoft Edge flatpak works flawlessly.
Are you using a flatpak browser too? If not, how did you get your browser to work?
I really like Fedora otherwise: up-to-date kernel and modern (very efficiently stored) packages, but properly tested with major releases, btrfs and systemd by default and commonality with RHEL is useful at work.
But these codec issues are pushing me back to Arch..
I remember some video sites not loading and having to load a non free codec. Other than that I am using librewolf which works but havent tried teams calls and such.
yet to use any OS where the default firefox install was good for too much, other than using it to install a clean firefox directly from mozilla
Distro version of Firefox worked wonderfully for me on EndeavourOS (Arch repo / Wayland / Sway) and Pop!_OS 22.04 (Ubuntu base / X11 / GNOME)