Thread: Things that you dislike in Ubuntu

The main things that I don't like about Ubuntu these days are: - Firefox installed as a Snap by default. It seems to still to take longer to get going than either the Flatpak or deb version. Thankfully I'm able to remove the snap ( as well as snapd itself), and install the deb from the Mozilla Team PPA. - The fact that there no longer is a mini.iso (for 20.10 onwards) available if I wanted to totally customize my install after installing just the base system the way you're able to in Debian. I dislike that some applications can not be resized without changing the default resolution. As example: I like a low esrolution for running my VPN frontend app as it can not be changed within the app, but I like a higher resolution for running Excel thru wine. Is there a way to change the screen resolution as a function of the program being run? … I enjoy Gnome but along with above I dislike that not everything is consistent. But this is not limited to Ubuntu. The problem is on Debian as well as any other distro I imagine. I can't understand why there can't be a single gui toolkit that can inherit whatever theme is on the system or being used without looking like a cheap hack. The power and choice of linux leads to this situation though so it can't be helped. I dislike the snap concept in general. It's flawed. The flaw is that it gives up one of the biggest strengths of *nix stuff... shared libraries. Without that benefit while I'm no fan of Microsoft I have trouble seeing why one should deal with the limitations (depending on what you do with it) of linux rather than just accept Windows as is. That seems to be the direction, at least at the moment. It does not bode well as far as I am concerned. Why bend over backwards to make something work when I can get a more polished system with far more available software. Without shared libraries it's just not worth the effort for me. Outside of my server at least... … But again that is down the road. Snaps haven't taken over and they certainly aren't becoming main stream. But while I appreciate the purpose of universal packages they are a major threat to as I said before to possibly the *nix stuffs greatest strength in regards to security, efficiency, everything really. If I'm going to end up with a system with holes damn near everywhere why not take the easy road. Laziness will prevail in my case... lol