So, I got my hands a new old-laptop - a very slim Vaio from 2013 -
and got the crazy idea to run vanilla Ubuntu on it. Yes, that Ubuntu
with the Gnome-Desktop and the forced snaps. Up to now I used
MX-Linux with i3 as the window manager. But since I'm nowadays
mostly living in Emacs I think I don't really need a tiling WM
anymore.
I always want to stay open-minded so I gave Ubuntu 22.04 a try and I
have to say my first impression was really good. It looks and sounds
fantastic! I know there is much e-drama about the whole snap
situation but I wanted to try it myself not mindlessly adopting the
viewpoint of some rando from the internet. Now I use Firefox and
Emacs28 as snap-packages and so far I have no problems at all.
There are some minor annoyances here and there but most of it stems
from my unfamiliarity with this whole Gnome-way of doing things. It
really is kinda nice to have functioning, beautiful GNU/Linux system
out-of-the-box. I think I keep it for now.
