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.

  • pathief@lemmy.world
    142·
    11 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
      72·
      11 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
        22·
        11 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
          9·
          11 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?

          • provisional@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            11 months ago

            I believe this is correct. Ubuntu installs the snap package if there is an equivalent package available. So even if you use apt, you still get snaps.

          • pathief@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 months ago

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