If you think about it for even a minute this is still a glaring cve in systemd, exposed in this case, by misbehaving snapd. systemd still needed to be patched and so did snapd.
Yet another critical vulnerability in the much vaunted systemd has been exposed by a misbehaving app - in this case snapd.
Both need patching.
Yes, thank you for the extra info!
Yet another critical vulnerability in systemd, this time involving snapd. Ubuntu folk are affected.
“A serious security issue has been discovered in Ubuntu, and it is gaining attention in the cybersecurity community. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-3888 and mainly affects Ubuntu Desktop systems from version 24.04 onwards. This flaw is dangerous because it allows an attacker with limited access to gain full root privileges. Root access means complete control over the entire system.”
Sure, nothing to worry about, sure …
"Spain Slaps Yoti With €950,000 Fine Over Biometric Data
The age verification company kept geolocation data for five years. Users could skip the privacy policy entirely."
https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/yoti-spain-aepd-fine-biometric-data-gdpr-2026/
I’ve recently spent a lot of time doing bare metal installs of a large number of non-systemd operating systems.
GhostBSD - Its BSD, so its stable and avoids the problems of Linux but supports less hardware especially 3D GPU’s.
FreeBSD - as above but more effort to install & configure initially because its server oriented but makes a fine workstation nevertheless.
Alpine - Highly performant Linux oriented to container hosting but can be made into a workstation with effort. Forget using nvidia except in nouveau driver.
Void - highly performant. more packages than Alpine. can be made into a workstation with effort. Forget using anything but newest nvidia GPU’s and even then strange unsolvable glitches.
Artix - look this is Arch with a non-systemd init (your choice of 3). Being Arch it inherits the repo’s of bleeding edge packages but also inherits the heavy maintenance burden of Arch (if you know, you know). I’m just too bloody busy to baby sit an Arch install with all its nonsense.
Endeavour et al - wait for other OS’s to implement work arounds to systemd’s cancerous kowtowing to corporate America imposed surveillance laws.
Devuan - a drop in replacement for Debian. Inherits Debian’s stability and ease of maintenance but with proven mature implementation of OpenRC init system.
The is the one I use for a calm happy life. To save time you can get a distro called ‘Vendefoul Wolf Linux’ which is Spanish in origin. Its a spin of Devuan but with a choice of GUI desktops and a GUI Calamares installer (the Devuan text mode TUI installer is fine, but whatever).
My daily driver is Vendefoul Wolf (Spanish for ‘vengenance’) LxQT desktop. Light, fast simple, stable. tip: download the ‘weekly’ iso’s not the old 2025 ones.
The inexorable assimilation of large parts of Linux userland by a huge binary constructed by a corporate sponsored developer. The rush by the lead dev to embrace surveillance law infrastructure. But yeah, no big deal right?
“The tragedy of systemd”
Motorola have announced a partnership with Graphene OS, a Canadian company. If the models Moto ships are semi affordable I would jump at that.
Decent audio experience?
You can tweak any distro but, pay attention to using Jack + PREEMPT_RT kernel + Xlibre (X11).
Avoid Wayland (especially with nvidia GPU), avoid Pipewire and avoid Gnome desktop.
I suggest starting out with Debian stable as the base. There are specialised AV Linux distros available but nothing beats knowing what you’re doing from the outset.
If you need the very latest version of a particular app not available as a distro package, Flatpak is your friend. Again, Debian ‘.debs’ and AppImage are most prevalent third party packages outside the proprietary app stores of Flathub & Snapcraft.
Switch to Devuan and have a peaceful life I guess.
Cheers!