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  • pathief@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldYear of Linux on the Desktop
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    7 months ago

    If you use apt-get you aren’t using snaps, you are unaffected.

    Snap is a format created by Canonical which has a really funky proprietary back end. The default application store in Ubuntu uses this format and has been plagued with an impersonation problem. Since everyone could submit snaps there was a lot of spyware posing as legit software. My main gripe was when the snap store just decided to unilaterally close and update my Firefox while I was using it.

    Linux Mint does NOT have snaps and even had a debian based version. Pretty neat







  • pathief@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSolid advice
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    8 months ago

    Even the most basic actions, like walking, require time to learn. Linux has some very user friendly distributions like Ubuntu or Linux Mint where you can basically auto-learn really fast. You don’t have to start with Arch Linux nor should you.

    Linux will never compete with Windows because most people will never bother to change whatever OS came with their laptop. That had nothing to do with the community.