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For me, that "coming back" Distro had always been Ubuntu but since ~2021, I'm toggling between Mint and Debian. That's largely due to them pushing the snap para
by pyeri 3y ago
For me, that "coming back" Distro had always been Ubuntu but since ~2021, I'm toggling between Mint and Debian. That's largely due to them pushing the snap paradigm down our throats. At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB.
On the flip side, I don't like the other version of snap (Flatpak) either, especially so since Red Hat pulled that proprietary shenanigan recently. In fact, anyone who is supportive of open source, free software or commons ethos should try to steer clear of anything related to RH after that.
- bloaf 3y agoI still type "yum install" instead of dnf, so I don't really use any of the newer distribution mechanisms.
- secabeen 3y ago> At this point, it's virtually impossible to escape that as firefox is only available as snap package in Ubuntu and not as DEB. Sure it is. Just use the official PPA from mozilla. Works great: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa A quick google will find plenty of sites telling you how to adjust the package versioning priorities to keep the MozillaTeam version of FF preferred over the crappy snap one. I still use Ubuntu desktop as my daily driver and server OS, and we have zero snaps installed on any of our systems.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI landed on Mint. It’s just enough Windows to make sense to me.
- ungamedplayer 3y agoThe license never changed. What part went proprietary. Show me the license change.
- mogwire 3y agoHoly FUD Batman. It’s a good thing Open Enterprise Linux is here to save us by forking RHEL and their, god awful, GPL packages! I’m glad to know that pyeri is swearing off so many packages maintained and contributed by Red Hat. Thanks for your sacrifice pyeri