Thank you for the sources. However, from your own source Mint appears to be fine. Ubuntu, agreed, isn’t worth touching but Mint seems to remove the problems with Ubuntu.
4 If you are a desktop user who values control and simplicity — consider migrating: Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Fedora, and Debian all offer compelling alternatives without Snap’s structural issues. The migration cost is real but one-time; the ongoing friction of managing Snap on Ubuntu compounds with every package and every update.
5 If you recommend distros to others — update your recommendation: Developers who previously defaulted to “just install Ubuntu” when helping friends or onboarding team members should now give this advice more thought. Linux Mint in particular offers a nearly identical user experience to Ubuntu’s classic desktop with none of the Snap-related friction.
I don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian
Yes and no. Fedora is the upstream of RHEL, and like Fedora there are both workstation and server editions. The relationship is similar to RHEL being the LTS of Fedora but not quite the same. A lot of governments and enterprises that have switched to Linux for workstations are using RHEL.
Long-term support and distro-branched tool chains are a boon to the workstation too. And all of lennarts cancer has been in support of dynamic networking changes and wifi devices; no overlap with a server, but they include that shit at every turn. So obviously they’re primarily gears for laptops and servers are a target of opportunity – and their decline in stability over 3-4 distro versions just backs that up.
Exactly, linux mint supremacy
cough debian edition cough
Why do Linux people shit talk each other for using a different distro? It makes no sense.
Closest thing a lot of us have to team sports
Because they can’t handle the templeOS supremacy
All praise temple OS the holiest of the holy.
It’s (usually) all in good fun.
Anyway, we can’t talk shit to anyone except each-other. No one else understands our jargon.
yeah, and besides, we’re all Hannah Montanna Linux bros. GTFO if not HML
Why can’t everyone just use the distro that is right for them, which is Arch?
Or Gentoo! Or LFS! Or Slackware. Or Alpine. Or NixOS. I use Arch, by the way.
Because the ubuntu edition is just sypware (thanks canonical). Linux is great, but their are good and bad choices to be made
None of it seems to suggest it’s spyware. I agree they do bad practices but spyware? C’mon
Also linux mint(the ububtu based one) also removes snaps and everything. How can you say anything like that about mint then?
Can you tell me more about Canonical spyware?
Its pretty well captured through this post:
https://social.ozymandias.club/post/81365
Edit: https://www.linuxteck.com/ubuntu-trust-problem-2026/
Thank you for the sources. However, from your own source Mint appears to be fine. Ubuntu, agreed, isn’t worth touching but Mint seems to remove the problems with Ubuntu.
I don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian
On the server…? Isn’t RHEL used primarily on servers?
Yes and no. Fedora is the upstream of RHEL, and like Fedora there are both workstation and server editions. The relationship is similar to RHEL being the LTS of Fedora but not quite the same. A lot of governments and enterprises that have switched to Linux for workstations are using RHEL.
If that counts as use of RHEL: All workstations of our institute were running CentOS.
Long-term support and distro-branched tool chains are a boon to the workstation too. And all of lennarts cancer has been in support of dynamic networking changes and wifi devices; no overlap with a server, but they include that shit at every turn. So obviously they’re primarily gears for laptops and servers are a target of opportunity – and their decline in stability over 3-4 distro versions just backs that up.
Almost exclusively.
There’s desktop RHEL, we used to run a CAD software on RHEL or SUSE