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submitted 11 months ago by Papercrane@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Since i see so much linux talk on lemmy i got curious and watched a video about the common distros. How true is the information in this video? The person hardly describes why debian and arch are just better than every other distro. At least i'm definitely now curious about Mint or something for gaming.

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[-] Papercrane@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

as a noob, why are snaps so bad? Thanks for the bullet points btw, it cleared a bunch of stuff up :)

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
  • Linux Experiment released a whole video this morning comparing packaging formats
  • the main issue with snaps is (generally) not the snaps themselves or the snap daemon, it’s that the Snap Store itself is closed source
    • a combination of rampant enshittification of online platforms, losing faith in Canonical’s direction, and lack of transparency into ranking/promotion/filtering of apps in the Snap Store (there’s already been a few claims that they’ve replaced an already installed native app with a snap package 🤷 )
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