I have moved over to Debian for my home machines lately. I used to use Ubuntu (and later Xubuntu because fuck the bloated mess that KDE has become)
I tried using Debian KDE, and it sucked. This was my first distro, and I had so many weird issues. The scaling and fonts looked off. I tried using different browsers before settling on Firefox because Brave looked like it was zoomed out to 120, but Firefox still had terrible-looking fonts. I then tried asking the Linux forums and looking up the issue, but I couldn't find any solutions. Linux is not ready for the consumer market, and I'm tired of fanboys pretending otherwise.
but their increasing insistence on treating the user as fundamentally retarded finally hit my last nerve when they insisted on everything being a Flatpak. Because fuck you, you're doing it the Canonical Way™, and we know better.
The Linux packaging system is terrible. Linus Torvalds figured this out decades ago, while Linux YouTube shills told me, "Guys, installing software on Linux is so much easier than Windows, trust me, bro," only for me to try sudo apt installing software and getting constant errors. I then tried installing Flatpaks, only for it to glitch. I think I eventually just downloaded deb files from the web browser, but it was a pain compared to Windows simple click and install. That's before you even mention how bad the so-called solutions like SnapPaks are.
Shame that no business will do it. Because I've been done with RH for quite a while now (despite my earlier praise of LEAPP), and now Canonical being on my shit-list.
I would've said Debian could fill the Ubuntu void, being community-run as opposed to corporate-owned, but now that community is full of more left-wing nuts than UC Berkeley.
But no, we have to have a vendor to give us support. After all, why hire professionals to do things?
And on top of this, the "professional" vendors gave up on supporting some distros that many people relied on, like that one fork of Red Hat I forgot the name of. Then it was only supported by Linode, but then Linode sold out to some Japanese company, and I'm not even sure if they still support that distro as far as I'm aware, so the people who relied on it got backstabbed and either had to change distros or deal with the security issues. Ubuntu works good as a server, but it seems like a choice between shooting yourself and drinking cyanide; they both suck, but one's better depending on your opinion. Do you want corporate troons or grassroots troons? Pick your poison.
easily so you can be spied upon (or if you are a programmer, replaced easily), having dozens of versions of the same software (better hope ALL your snaps update when there's a vulnerability!) and being bent over a barrel when broadcomm buys VMware.
