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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
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Lucky kids. I remember when I switched to Linux and encountered my first app store (Synaptic). That was already such a huge improvement over random
.exes, and app stores today are way, way better.Damn even i was impressed by apt install command so much the first time
Package managers are fine. Walled gardens are not.
Absolutely. Luckily there are plenty of non-walled garden solutions on Linux, e.g. Flatpak.
I mean, snap could also be not. Just somebody needs to write a wrapper that allows to download, verify etc. .snap packages from other repos.
Shitty move of Canonical for sure.