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[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Canonical (Ubuntu) bastardized their own OS. I recommend Mint Debian for noobs; Mint is what Ubuntu used to be when it was good and going Debian gets away from Canonical entirely.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

Snaps, their own app-in-a-box format. Which would be fine, except they're provided only by Ubuntu's closed-source Snap Store, have larger size and inferior performance because dependencies are redundantly rolled into each one, and the worst part is that they started turning nearly every app in their OS into a Snap. If you sudo apt install firefox, you get a Firefox Snap instead of a native package.