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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't care what some distro snob thinks.. I use ubuntu and have few problems. I replace the snaps and move on. I've been using Linux longer than most of them have been alive. They can pretend that makes me behind the times but somehow I always seem to be ahead of them. Having made my stance clear.

I don't care what distro they use. Why would I?

[-] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Ironic - one of the reasons I like Ubuntu based distros is the easy access to snaps.

[-] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Fascinating. I was just wondering if anyone could actually like snap and I personally knew no one until now.

FWIW I'm a long time Kubuntu user and I like it very much. But the snap experience has me on the brink of switching to a different distro.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'll use one if it is something more obscure. I do however replace things like firefox and vlc with the source repo.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Switching Firefox from the apt repo to the snap is one of the things I did when using KDE Neon on my laptop (on my desktop with Nvidia I did the opposite on Kubuntu).

I don't know what you mean about VLC though - while it's available as an official snap published by VideoLAN, it's also in the apt repos on all Ubuntu versions.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Its probably fixed now but for years vlc suffered from several bugs on ubuntu the worst being it launching multiple windows despite having that disabled in settings. I started using the PPA and now I just skip ubuntu maintained versions.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Ahh, well that's a different thing. The snap though is maintained by the VideoLAN folks and part of their official repo.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'll keep it in mind but will probably just keep doing what I do. I only reload every three or four years.

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