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  • It’s not directly answering your questions, but I do like .pkpass. It’s a good standard because it does not require accounts, links or anything like that. If you have the file, you can import it. It’s the opposite of how Google does it, which makes it useful beyond Apple.

    PDFs/Screenshots being invalid because it can be sent quickly to multiple people is a bad reason as you could print out multiple copies too. Sadly, being sensible is so often not a thing.

    FossWallet seems to be great although I didn’t try it yet.

    I also really hate it when services restrict downloads depending on the platform. I.e. it could be possible that Apple users get shown a .pkpass, while Android is artificially limited to Google Wallet - even though not all devices support it. Maybe setting the user agent could help but that’s just a wild guess.






  • Arch requires reading the manual to install it, so installing it successfully is an accomplishment.

    It’s rolling release with a large repo which fits perfectly for regularly used systems which require up-to-date drivers. In that sense it’s quite unique as e.g. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has less packages.

    It has basically any desktop available without any preference or customisations by default.

    They have a great short name and solid logo.

    Arch is community-based and is quite pragmatic when it comes to packaging. E.g. they don’t remove proprietary codecs like e.g. Fedora.


    Ubuntu is made by a company and Canonical wants to shape their OS and user experience as they think is best. This makes them develop things like snap to work for them (as it’s their project) instead of using e.g. flatpak (which is only an alternative for a subset of snaps features). This corporate mindset clashes with the terminally online Linux desktop community.

    Also, they seem to focus more on their enterprise server experience, as that is where their income stream comes from.

    But like always, people with strong opinions are those voicing them loudly. Most Linux users don’t care and use what works best for them. For that crowd Ubuntu is a good default without any major downsides.

    Edit: A major advantage of Ubuntu are their extended security updates not found on any other distro (others simply do not patch them). Those are locked behind a subscription for companies and a free account for a few devices for personal use.