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Year of Linux on the Desktop (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by Limonene@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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[-] pathief@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Power to you, friend. But with current snap store out of the box it's really hard to recommend Ubuntu to anyone. Linux Mint seems such a better choice to newbies.

At the end of the day it's not really a big deal, people should just use whatever feels best.

[-] Locuralacura@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

What is wrong with the snap store? It's not something I'm aware of.

I go to terminal. I sudo apt-get

I get Firefox, I get my VPN, I get deluge, I get my audio player.

I use those things. I sleep well at night.

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Correct me if I am wrong, but apt-get install firefox installs the snap version unless you go out of your way to fix that?

[-] Zitrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Yep, it installs the snap version

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

apt uses debians packages and debian repositories. Unless they recently created an alias or something, it should install debian packaged version!

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I was under the impression the latest "firefox" package was a kind of "meta" package that caused the snap to get installed instead.

Certainly seems that way according to: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox

Note that 22.04 is described as a transitional package to snap.

Apt does use debian packages (.deb files), but on ubuntu it uses ubuntus repositories.

[-] pathief@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Even worse than I thought, then :/

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They've introduced a couple of redirects so that the snap version gets installed.

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