Hello all. As an avid follower Privacyguides, I switched to Fedora a few months ago and this is the only decision I regret for regarding the changes I made for privacy. Today, I reverted to Ubuntu, but I lost so much time during this period. I know it was discussed so many times in Reddit and GitHu…

Do the methods shown in this video no longer work or are they insufficient to get rid of snapd? Since we are talking about Ubuntu, if it is possible to get rid of snapd, then Firefox can be installed as flatpak as you suggest, or by extracting the .tar file to a directory as described on the offici…

[image] purplecactus: i think it might be worth a small note of the Fedora Spins with wayland by default if GNOME doesn’t suit? Fedora KDE Spin is painfully bloated, couldn’t use it. As far as I know, Fedora KDE Spin is a showcase and comes with everything that KDE has to offer + more, and a…

I am surprised that someone with 10 years of Linux experience couldn’t deal with these small issues. But I agree that Ubuntu is more beginner friendly than Fedora, simply because you can get most software for Ubuntu and you will find more instructions than for Fedora. Ubuntu is still one of the most…

You can use the Fedora Everything (network) ISO to get a more minimalistic KDE variant

[image] Jegah: Whats the point in spreading missinformation? It is not misinformation. It is a frequently observed behaviour regarding GNOME when it comes to extensions. But I understand where you are coming from and the concerns regarding feature bloat requests. [image] Jegah: GNOME dev…

[image] anon73250778: The official way to layer installing other programs is via toolbox. You can still install regular .rpm files on top of Silverblue but Fedora cautions us to do this sparingly, maybe 2-3 .rpm apps maximum. I wrote this in the context of Silverblue. When a Silverblue user w…

Hmm your post doesnt really say much at all. Ubuntu highly modifies GNOME, Fedora ships vanilla Gnome. Some like it, I prefer KDE even though Gnome may be really nice. Signal and some others only offer native .deb packages. This sucks, but its not their fault. For such a messy project like Signal…

A lot of people are saying that a lot of things here aren’t Fedora/Red Hat’s fault. It doesn’t actually matter whose fault it is, does it? Is it user friendly or isn’t it?

Indeed. You can find solutions/workarounds to most problems. But, I am sure that even 1% of people won’t bother to go into the difficult way. I am just a privacy conscious person, so why should I have to spend hours for basic information and configuration? How many of us really use Fedora or Graphe…

[image] Phoenix: Is it user friendly or isn’t it? I would posit the same question against Ubuntu. My opinion is Ubuntu used to be much more user-friendly before prematurely pushing snaps. Last I checked, the Libreoffice snap has a massive performance penalty compared to native. Firefox and Th…

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