Canonical make it hard not to use snaps so only those who took extra steps are not using them.

Yea, not with firefox, at least not without switching to some third party repo.

Uses KDE and not available to general public.

If you open to do some research - you should be able to stay on Debian and use nix the package manager https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/111099224022408403

Comes with some steep learning curve, almost a learning cliff though. But once past this - it’s good.

That’s what I’m using, but it’s not a fully featured replacement.

Been using it since forever, no reasons to switch. It works. Got a bit upset at them when they killed xul/pentadactyl though.

Yea, something like that. Using it on my laptop already. configuration.nix for system plus home-manager for user stuff. Will move the desktop soon-ish.

NixOS. I’m going to migrate to NixOS by then.

https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/3968 - this to monitor and poke, there are also a link for a sample wrapper that might or night not help you.

You need this https://github.com/guibou/nixGL

Don’t use it - vote with your feet :)

urxvt. It works good enough and doesn’t use much memory.

You can find answer to most of the questions in google. And there are always people who are willing to help in the internets.

Kind of like flatpacks but it’s done with symlinks and fancy changes to the build systems. I think it fits better for the developer environment.

Biggest package repository, a very strange package manager that lets you reproduce exact environment for any package. But also takes a bunch of time to understand and you basically have to learn a whole new programming language to use it if you don’t want to copy-paste examples.

What PPA was it? I’m using this one and it seems to be still native. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt

That said - I’m experimenting with NixOS to move to.

systemd had problems when it was first introduced, but it works much better now and it’s not going away. I would suggest to revisit it again.

I’m using tiling WM mostly to have shortcuts and more controls about window switching but I rarely have multiple windows visible at once, but when I do - tiling is more convenient. When it doesn’t - you can always make that particular window floating.

• xmonad - tiling wm because I’m too lazy to place windows by hands
• firefox - since a lot of things I’m working with is web based and I like my adblock and don’t want google spying on me
• urxvt - a terminal that is fast enough for most applications yet doesn’t use as much memory as fancier ones
• tmux - a terminal multiplexer - terminal tabs are not as nice plus lets you leave stuff running remotely
• neovim - I need a text editor and it works great for that purposes covering all my needs

With Ubuntu Core, the kernel is installed as a snap rather than being built into the base system.

snaps might be a bright future, but I imagine it’s going to be a rocky transition. I’ll wait it out on some other distribution…