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I did the same thing, actually. 😅
Ubuntu drama, switched to Fedora
Red Hat drama, switched to OpenSUSE.
But now I have to learn everything because I'm still stuck on APT. I like Zypper and OPI, though. I just wish it wasn't so freaking slow.
Ubuntu drama? Don't like snap or something else?
It's not really that I dislike Snap, but the little petty war against Flatpak that Canonical has started is just an 'ick to me. Besides that, switching was a no brainer for me I like bleeding edge software, and I own an Intel Arc card, which benefits from the improvements found newer versions of Mesa.
True, I tried snap on desktop a few years ago. Now I run Ubuntu server with everything I can in docker.
'sudo zypper ref' and 'sudo zypper dup' (or up on leap) has done the trick for me. It's a bit slow though true.
Being able to use .rpm files is nice though
Very helpful, will try.