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
    22·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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·
        1 year ago

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