I like Thunder

Wait and see you distrohopping every month for years ending up in a boring stable distro.

Why don’t you install flatpak on Ubuntu, make the packaging migration before doing the OS migration so you can evaluate your workflow with the new packaging system? Afer you’re used and confident with flatpak, backup and restore the flatpak folder into fedora and you transition should be smoother (don’t need to worry with 2 stuff at the same time)

As an addition to other responses, think that most apps (specially smaller ones) are developed using some framework or set of libraries that might or might not support those protocols.

So let’s pretend that I have an app buit using Electron and that framework does not support Wayland. There’s nothing I can do on the app side until Electron supports Wayland in this fake example.

So it actually takes time for the libraries to support the new protocol and then app developers to update their apps to support it aswell.

That’s why you see that the Wayland migration is incremental and not all at once.

What I do nowadays is to have Timeshift daily backups in case something breaks the system and the Ubuntu backup application doing daily backups of my home to my NAS. I don’t have a separate home partition although this is often recommended.

This setup saved me once, but I haven’t needed it for almost 2 years now.

Doesn’t windows ship with a native email client? I don’t use Windows but I remember an email app on it.

I find myself spending less money on useless stuff by not seeing as many ads as before and getting more neutral search results.

Before I was finding myself wanting to buy certain stuff because they looked cool in ads. Now I think more on what I want to buy and start exposing myself to that product or service after the decision was made.

They sell a bunch of models with Ubuntu pre installed in Brazil also. Not every model / configurations, but even gaming laptops are available here.

I think the key here is to favor stability than latest features as you don’t want your server stopping due to bugs.

So the systems being recommended here, like Debian and Ubuntu LTS are good.

Nowadays I don’t even bother with upgrades anymore. Snaps and Flatpaks auto updates automatically, and for system updates Ubuntu notifies once a week.

For me the experience nowadays is better than before, where app updates are tied to system updates, meaning that older bases (like Ubuntu LTS) got behind on some softwares.

Snaps have a similar deduplication mechanism, and snaps allows calling apps from their names like you would do with regular packages.

I think the reason for the second one is that while snaps are also meant to be used in servers/cli flatpak is built only with desktop GUI apps in mind.

That would be the same of hating docker because it creates networks. It’s just how it’s sandbox works.

I’m not defending canonical decisions, but definably when they started working on this there was no other alternative available for them to collaborate at the time

You know that snaps existed before Flatpaks right?

Last time I tried (1 year ago), waydroid on UT used a Lineageos image, which means that you’ll get the same level of degoogling as a stock LineageOS system. Some internals still uses Google, but it comes with no Google apps for example.

From there it’s up to you to install or not Google apps and services. It does not bundle play services for example.

Have been using this LTS since its release and it has been rock solid for my use case. It basically goes out of my work, just works and issues are minor. The most stable Ubuntu that I ever used

In many countries cheap/unlimited SMS was not a thing decades ago, so whatsapp filled that gap. Nowadays things got way better, but people are already used Whatsapp, and in some places companies even offer “unlimited whatsapp” in their plans, so seems unlikely to change.

Between using wsl to run apps and using windows, I think there’s little benefit when talking about privacy. Most open source apps have windows version so you can start your migration without formatting, getting used to the ecosystem and when you change, you won’t miss anything.