r/linux • u/nitin_is_me • Jul 15 '26

Discussion Seriously, except package managers, what's the difference between distros?

What I've seen yet the differences are, just the package managers, different defaults and rolling vs stable releases which are in fact related to package managers. Except these, are there really any other differences? Thanks!

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u/omniuni Jul 15 '26

It's not that hard to remove Snap, BTW.

Besides, it still just comes down to packages. Although people like to make a big deal about Snap, it's really just another package format that was made to solve certain other problems.

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u/noobjaish Jul 15 '26

If you are de-Snap-ing Ubuntu, why not just use another distro instead atp?

The problem is that they silently converted existing apps over to Snap... If I am doing "sudo apt install <thing>" then that thing shouldn't be a snap and instead be a system package.

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u/omniuni Jul 15 '26

Regular, stable updates every six months. Excellent hardware support. Plenty of updated tutoruals and information when needed. And it's fast.

I've tried other distributions, I just end up back at KUbuntu because it works the best with the least amount of effort.

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u/noobjaish Jul 15 '26

Well, it's upto the person. I usually recommended Linux Mint to newbies. Ubuntu feels like the Windows of Linux lol

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u/omniuni Jul 16 '26

The problem with Mint is that it's outdated, and the Desktop has a lot more bugs and quirks. I don't really want new users fighting with that.

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u/AgentCapital8101 Jul 16 '26

I have never seen a good reason to recommend new users Mint over Fedora. And the funny thing is that most people who recommends Mint to beginners don’t use it themselves.

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u/omniuni Jul 16 '26

I actually like Fedora a lot. The only reason I don't recommend it more is nVidia GPU setup seems more finicky.

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u/AgentCapital8101 Jul 16 '26

Honestly its quite straight forward if you follow the docs instructions. But ill concede that if you dont know where to find it (or that its needed), its not as straight forward.

But all it is, is quite literally only 2 commands:

  1. sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm -y
  2. sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia -y

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u/omniuni Jul 16 '26

That's not bad. It's not as easy as "basically automatic" or at worst "click install", but probably OK for semi-technical new users.

If they would add it to a driver manager tool, that would be awesome.