UBUNTU without the CONTROVERSIAL choices: try these 5 Linux distros!

like it or not Ubuntu is still the face of desktop Linux a lot of people might not know what Linux is exactly although they will very likely have heard about Ubuntu but in recent years Ubuntu and canonical their parent company have made a bunch of controversial decisions which didn't already go well with parts of the Linux community so what can you do if you like the Ubuntu base its package repos and tools but you don't agree with the various decisions and changes Ubuntu and canonical make well you can use an Ubuntu based distro that doesn't follow every single decision Ubuntu makes so today we'll look at the most interesting Ubuntu based distribution so you can keep using what you know without using what you don't like and what you will like is also this segue to our sponsor this video is sponsored by safing and their portmaster app portmaster lets you Monitor and control every connect action your system or your applications make to the internet and it also gives you a lot of tools to 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over the years like always trying to go their own way instead of working with the rest of the community but these are pretty much details right you could always uninstall snap disable the Telemetry and decide to use the community develop tools instead of what Ubuntu is trying to push instead well yes you could but that's just part of the story if what you dislike is canonical the company behind Ubuntu and their decisions then disabling all of this doesn't really help in recent years canonical has made some questionable moves the most recent of which is grabbing back their lxd project and getting rid of every maintainer that wasn't an employee of canonical there's also their refusal to open up the store backend for snaps which makes a lot of people distress the format there was also the old Amazon problem where the Ubuntu desktop by default send search queries to Amazon to return some products in the desktop itself there were also some questionable trademark disputes and more so basically what you might not like is the generic corporate side of Ubuntu canonical it's a company and if you prefer your Linux distros to be Community ran then it might not fit the bill so if you know how Ubuntu works if you like the Debian packaging format apt as a package manager and the general tools and architecture of Ubuntu then you might want to keep using that but without the hassle of removing everything you don't want and without supporting the official product of a company you don't trust so let's look at ubuntu-based distributions that offer a familiar environment but get rid of everything you might not like and we will Begin by immediately lying as this one isn't Ubuntu based it's actually the one Ubuntu is based on it's Debian if what you like about Ubuntu and what you want to keep using is apt the package manager and the vast software repos but you want a vanilla KD organome experience and none of the canonical projects and decisions Debian might be a really solid bet if you're an Ubuntu LTS user Debian stable will give you a similarly stabled experience with older well-tested packages and the vanilla version of all the desktops you want and nothing prevents you from replicating the Ubuntu variant of The Gnome desktop by installing the yaru theme and icons the dock and desktop icons if you're more of a non-lts Ubuntu user Debian testing might offer the experience you prefer it's got more up-to-date packages with more risk of breakage though it might be a little less stable than Ubuntu in some cases as problems might not get fixed very quickly and it is a rolling release you will get continuous updates to the system without major version upgrades some people call Ubuntu Debian plus some BS and while that's a pretty reductive way of looking at what Ubuntu does if what you really want is just the APT repos and you don't want any of the canonical decisions then Debian is actually a pretty good choice okay now with that out of the way let's look at some actually Ubuntu based distributions and we can't start this list without talking about mint mint is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS and removes basically everything that makes Ubuntu Ubuntu snaps aren't there some apps that don't have a Debian package anymore in Ubuntu have one in mint like chromium and they don't use the gnome desktop you get cinnamon a desktop mint developed themselves once based on gnome 3 but now pretty much its own thing now since you also get access to ubuntu's repos you can always install the genome desktop and all the customization Ubuntu makes to it with the package Ubuntu gnome desktop or you can go with a generic section without all the Ubuntu stuff with the vanilla gnome desktop package basically mint can replicate the Ubuntu LTS experience without anything that you might not like from Ubuntu and you also get an excellent Suite of graphical tools that Min developed to handle virtually anything you might want although if you're not an LTS user and you prefer intermediate Ubuntu releases then mint doesn't have that when you might want to try is Rhino Linux it's a relatively recent distro and it moves away from the Ubuntu template by being a rolling release it doesn't give you major upgrades it's always updated in the background especially the Linux kernel and some important apps like Firefox Rhino Linux doesn't use the gnome desktop by default it uses its own vision of xfce that let's be honest feels a lot like modern gnome with an activities view that shows your virtual desktops and app windows and an app grid if you prefer the Ubuntu desktop experience though you still have access to it through the repos you can use apt but Rhino Linux also comes with a meta package manager called Rhino package that lets you install Debian packages from the repos flat packs snaps and it also lets you use pack stall an equivalent to the arch user repo for Ubuntu pakistol is actually how Rhino Linux distributes updates to the Ubuntu Base by grabbing stable snapshots of the current development release of Ubuntu it is probably the biggest departure on this list from the normal Ubuntu model and it's a relatively recent distro so you might not trust it as much but it definitely deserved a spot on this list because it's Ubuntu but it does something different another Ubuntu based distro that has a few cool tricks up its sleeve is popovas it used to have a new release for each new Ubuntu version so you had the choice of an LTS or a more up-to-date version but since system 76 the developers of Pop os are currently working on their own Cosmic desktop that will not be genome-based they have stuck to the latest Ubuntu LTS 22.04 if that's a problem for you know that pop OS also has some updates on top of that base notably for drivers and a Linux kernel and it has some applications that are provided in their own repo so you are not stuck on very old versions of important apps they also have some interesting tweaks to The Gnome desktop they offer a different experience with a dock by default an app launcher a specific theme and auto tiling features that let you switch from floating windows to a tiling window manager at the Press of a button or with a keyboard shortcut it's the distro system 76 ships to their customers as they sell laptops and desktops with pop OS pre-installed so it is well maintained and tested and of course you don't need system 76 Hardware to run it they remove snaps from the install and they ship with flat pack and flat Hub out of the box instead if you are okay with an Ubuntu LTS base but you still want to use something like genome then pop OS is probably a very good choice now whether they will update it to 24.04 the next Ubuntu LTS or whether they will wait until their own Cosmic desktop is developed I don't quite know but for now it's still a pretty decent choice if you want to keep using Ubuntu but you don't want to use Ubuntu now if you're more of a KDE user but kubuntu doesn't really float your boat then there's tuxedo OS it's a relatively new entry but it offers something interesting it's Ubuntu based with the latest KD apps and desktop plugged straight from KD neon's repos this means you get a semi-rolling release model with access to the repos for ubuntu's latest LTS version plus some extra repos on top of that for more recent kernel and drivers and some applications that need to be more up to date tuxedo OS is made by tuxedo unsurprisingly a company that sells devices that run Linux out of the box they are a sponsor of the channel you can learn more about them if you wait until the end of the video now what's really interesting is that this is the distro that they ship by default on their devices as well so you know like pop OS it's well tested and well maintained it is also the distribution I used to make this whole video from writing the script to editing it compare out to kubuntu you get the benefits of having the latest KD desktop and apps as soon as they're released without needing a major version upgrade but you do lose the intermediary releases it's only giving you access to the LTS repos here compared to KDE neon you get a more up-to-date kernel and drivers and some extra repos for more up-to-date applications and you still get the semi-rolling release model That Neon has it can be a very good compromise if you want the latest KD desktop and apps and you don't really mind having older packages in the repo since you also have flat Hub and flat pack enabled out of the box so you can get the latest versions of virtually every app and now for a list of the distros I didn't really include and the reasons why the first one is zorian OS while it is a good take on Ubuntu being basically exactly Ubuntu LTS but with a customized desktop pre-made layouts and support for virtually every packaging format out of the box it is also based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the Linux kernel 5.15 it might not be a problem for many people but this space is more than three years old by now and this means that if you want to get your apps or desktops from the Ubuntu repos you're getting very very old versions older than the ones the current release of Debian stable has I personally think this doesn't make it suitable for a desktop at least until they move to a newer base if they did that it would instantly make zorinois jump back to the top of my Ubuntu based districts list but right now it's just way too old for a test desktop the second one is Elementary OS it's based on 22.04 LTS and it does have access to the full Ubuntu repos but their added value is their desktop environment Pantheon while I personally think it's a really great option it is also very very opinionated with defaults that won't fit everyone including the removal of all Debian based packages from their graphical App Store meaning that you can only install apps from the Elementary OS flat back remote by default graphically and flat Hub apps if you add that yourself to install any Debian packages you will need to use the command line and I am not sure that's what an Ubuntu user would be looking for if that's not an issue for you though the experience is well worth a try Elementary OS is a distro I absolutely love and I love what they're doing with Polish and their own desktop but it is not for everyone and then there are all the in two flavors sure they are more Ubuntu than any other distro on this list but they're also now constrained by canonical's decisions like preventing them from Shipping another packaging format than snap future decisions will probably also apply to these distros as well so if you're leaving Ubuntu because of canonical they're probably not very suitable and now you might have noticed a recurring theme most of these are based on Ubuntu LTS and unfortunately yes that's the case most of these distros use the LTS bass probably because they are mostly Community Based and porting all their tools extensions and utilities to a new base every 6 months is just too much work it can still be a problem if you prefer using non-lts versions of Ubuntu at which point your best bet is probably to just use either one of the Rolling variants presented in the video like tuxedo Os or Rhino Linux another option if you don't have a problem with canonical as a company but just with snaps and Telemetry is to keep using Ubuntu and just disable Telemetry and remove all the snaps uninstalled what you what you actually want to use just know that Ubuntu has clearly marked their future as being with snaps so if you don't like that you're probably better off leaving the train right now but if what you want is a new computer you can get on board our sponsor strain right now tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box they are based in Germany but they ship to most countries in the world and they have a big range of devices that are made to support Linux the hardware is specifically picked because it runs Linux really well and if there were 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Channel: The Linux Experiment

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Length: 16min 26sec (986 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 12 2023