Canonical isn’t exactly clean from controversy, and Ubuntu is a rather opinionated distribution. I appreciate how RedHat contributes upstream as much as possible, and how vanilla Fedora is. In my opinion, that makes for a better user experience.

Are you familiar with Fedora Silverblue or Universal Blue? It’s, in some ways, a halfway point between nix and Fedora. Another way to put it is that it builds on existing paradigms to create a declarative system based on Fedora.

Plasma’s scalable applications paradigm has been around for coming up on 15 years. Gnome’s isn’t far behind.