Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.

Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.

But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox and press Y? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.

Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole.

Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don’t are just bad imo.

Isn’t the web version a full client that works without a phone nearby nowadays?

But what makes ubuntu better as a first distro than mint or fedora? It installs snaps even when you specifically invoke apt, a new user who doesn’t understand the messages will press yes, see that it seemed to work and have issues later that can scare them away from linux.

What I’m trying to say is that we should bash the people still recommending ubuntu.

Mine was Windows. It became so bad I decided to say “fuck it, linux might be hard but anything is better than this bullshit”.

Now I know that windows isn’t just a bad implementation of an OS, it’s fundamentally a bad concept. If you can even call that mess a concept.

I’m on X and every time I launch a game I haven’t played in a while, there’s a high chance that it will have low FPS, stutter or just straight up won’t work anymore. This isn’t about starfield, it happens with every single game I play. Titanfall 2 is a recent example. It runs better on my steam deck than it does on my PC with a 1070 Ti. It used to run well about a year ago.

If the proton version didn’t change, the issue is always the nvidia driver. But since I don’t know when it broke, I have to try a few different versions to find one that works well with that game, which might break others.

It was a similar story on windows, I used to just not update the driver unless I absolutely had to.

It’s been a while since I had an AMD card, but there was only one time when I saw a driver regression and my friends with AMD cards also don’t have any issues. They’re on windows, but I assume that this aspect transfers to linux with AMD just like it does for nvidia.

Proprietary nvidia driving well?

I’m currently considering buying an AMD GPU just so that I don’t constantly have to troubleshoot the nvidia driver when I want to game.

I just use debian for my ventoy. But all you really need is a proper partition manager.

You can use tailscale for that, it took literally 1 minute to set up for me and is completely free for use cases like this.

Try removing your PC from KDE connect and redo the pairing through the second router.

I use tailscale to connect to my home network and that worked for me, KDE connect can now work both locally and through tailscale.

Implementation is the actual code with the logic that does the thing you want it do, as opposed to the command, which is how you tell the system what it should do.

The command can be the same on multiple OSs, but the implementation can be different.

In case of Linux and the coreutils (which are the basic programs you need beside the kernel to make a functioning system, stuff like mkdir) the most common implementation of all the coreutils is the one made by GNU. Stallmann did a lot of work on that so he wants credit for making a big part of the OS.

I chrooted in about 30 times on my first day.

Any concrete examples on that? I feel like FOSS is what pushes people towards making modular software with APIs in the first place while proprietary software is usually monolithic, probably because all the devs are colleagues and can just talk to each other.

My company recently enabled windows defender’s ASR and it caused a shitload of issues, so they had to disable it again for half the company.

Windows also does shit like turning up my volume all the time and some update broke lightshot in a weird way where some people who had it installed before the update can use it, but when you install it after the update, it just won’t launch. This crap is impossible to troubleshoot.

Meanwhile on Linux, I can fix pretty much everything with a bit of googling and if I can’t figure it out, I can post on the arch forums and get help for free, usually very quickly and by people who really know their shit.

Those are valid points, but windows has the exact same issues. Updates break stuff so often that many people have just adopted a habit to never update if they need to rely on their machines. The same is true for me, I spent many hours trying to find a version of the nvidia driver that has no issues.

But the good thing is that it’s usually super easy to fix if something does break. The amount of headaches I had with PPAs and snap are worse than having an arch update break something. You can usually roll back the packages with issues (namely anything from nvidia).

Don’t start out with the stuff that experienced people use, you’ll just get frustrated if you do.

My first experience was that windows got on my nerves so much I said “fuck it, I’ll just learn linux”. And I’ve been learning ever since. Just using linux as a desktop OS and figuring stuff out along the way is a great way to learn the basics.

Documentation too. Frontends change all the time, but CLI tools usually don’t, so you can usually rely on old documentation. But have you ever tried googling how to do something in MS office, found and article from half a year ago and found that none of the things it mentions exist anymore? It’s ridiculous how much time people waste trying to figure out stuff multiple times because it changes so much.

Our internal documentation for setting up a windows VM literally says “Press ‘maybe later’ for the next 9 screens”

Ah yes, vendor lock-in in desktop linux.

I don’t get why anyone thinks this is acceptable in any way.