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I use Kubuntu, with snaps disabled, seems to all work fine. But I have been looking for a distro that's not using snaps -- they've just been a buggy mess for me
by pbhjpbhj 2y ago
I use Kubuntu, with snaps disabled, seems to all work fine. But I have been looking for a distro that's not using snaps -- they've just been a buggy mess for me and the apps I've used that installed that way were all broken.
MX Linux is looking good for when Canonical finally double down and make every installed binary have its own mount point.
FWIW, I use WinGetUI to install from MS/Chocolatey sources rather than going off finding installers when using Win10 too. (Though it's a terrible UX compared to `aptitude`, imo.)
- timbit42 2y agoI use Linux Mint and install KDE Plasma.
- constantcrying 2y agoWhy would you do that? It's clear canonical wants you to use snaps, there are actually distros near identical to Ubuntu whose developers aren't hellbent on you using snaps. Do whatever you want, it just seems bizarre to me that you would go to lengths disabling snaps when you could just use a distro without them.
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoI'm embedded, simple. Changing distro is a big thing after maybe 18 years. It was easier to disable, so far, than it was to fix the apps that failed as snaps. But, I intend to move, when Canonical go all in on snaps and 'disable' just turning them off. I'm suspecting 24.04 might be that point. But it was delayed and I've not had chance to check it out yet. In some ways the distro is like a part of my identity; it's a personal decision, not a business decision as I'm a home user only now.