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[–] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I am going to call it that now.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not up to date on my Linux drama, what's wrong with Snap?

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Slow, forced. Flatpack is better.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh, guess when I eventually end up back on Linux I'll stay away from Ubuntu then. I assume it's in things like Xubuntu and so on too?

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I personally wouldn’t stay away from Ubuntu just because of petty nerd shenanigans like this one. At the end of the day it’s still a very mature and beginner friendly distro.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

I used to use it back in the day, I even kinda liked that Unity thing they were doing for a minute. Whenever I end up back there (technically I'm already on Linux because I have a Steam Deck) I'm more likely to look for something lightweight

snaps break webusb, which some normies need

[–] endhits@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just use Fedora. In my opinion, it's the new gold standard for standard use Linux distributions.

If you really want an Ubuntu base, Pop!_OS is also good. They're working on making their own desktop environment, which is looking pretty sweet.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's centralized and controlled by Canonical, it enforces updates and you can't disable it, sometimes when you uninstall snapd it cames back when you apt update and most importantly, it is painfully slow.

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago

So it’s not about snap, it’s about canonical- and they are why I’m no longer an Ubuntu user. Debian > any downstream distro

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 years ago

Oh so it's the exact kind of enshittification that anyone on Linux went there to escape. Sounds like a deal breaker to me.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, sounds extremely shitty. It'd be fine if they didn't force it

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And the fact they're forcing it tells you they're going to do something anti-consumer with it, so even if it doesn't suck now it will in the future.

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] solinus@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

whem/if i do get a computer i'm thinking of dualbooting windows and linux mint (since the only computer I have is a school laptop that runs windows)

[–] complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That's how I started out! It was a pretty decent experience.

However, I would rate Debian as a slightly better choice over Mint. You see, Mint is a fork of Ubuntu (which is a fork of Debian). So when I needed to troubleshoot an issue, instead of just googling "Linux Mint [my issue]", I actually sometimes had to google "Ubuntu [my issue]", or even "Debian [my issue]", depending on the situation. This is because Mint and Ubuntu share large similarities with Debian, but with certain particular differences; for any given situation, I didn't necessarily know which differences played a role. This is actually why I switched to Debian; I figured, my experience was going to be basically exactly the same, just with more straightforward troubleshooting.

If you're worried about user-friendliness, then the good news is that's largely to do with your desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, etc). Whichever one you pick, it will pretty much feel the exact same no matter whether the underlying distro is Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint. Especially because they're all Debian-based.

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Is that famous cappy-blappy name of gort???

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Any other distro moment(just use debian if you dont care its stable for everyone ik)

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

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