Switched to LMDE and love it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.world

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No hate to Ubuntu LTS (my old OS) as I think for an entry to Linux, it's about the best there is, and then I just got used to it and then I started getting more and more annoyed with Snaps.

FFWD a couple of years and I decided to switch to Mint but I wanted something that was entirely free of Snaps, not just blocked, so LMDE seemed the best fit. I get all the good bits of Mint without the Canonical enforced stuff. It's been running a week now and after plenty of tweaks (installing Gnome for example) looks and feels exactly how I wanted it without interference from Canonical.

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Got it. Thanks, I was curious. I mostly use the terminal for meeting sure I can use gifs as a desktop background, just customization stuff, haha.

I don't even notice the snaps. You mean there installation process via snaps is slower or the programs run slower?

[-] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

The install process mainly - it used to hang quite a lot for me. But, maybe that was something I had misconfigured.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Got it.

I feel like whenever I do anything in the terminal, I'm just searching and following walkthroughs made by virtuous Linux giants before me.

I don't remember any hanged snap installs, but working with Ubuntu provides me with so much information if anything has failed, I probably assumed I did something wrong and found an alternative online instead of solving a snap issue anyway, haha.

Maybe a bunch of them didn't work and I just didn't notice. My setup is pretty constant since it's my office, i try not to change too many things I don't need to function.

Sorry, off hours, just rambling.

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