![]() ![]() The whole point, at least how they sell it, with Mint, is it’s supposed to be easy, especially for those moving from Windows. Wow, is anyone sane these days? I’ve seen this snap thing in a number of places. I guess lots of distros have similar moments in the sun, but Mint’s seems to have lasted for an *unusually* long time … except maybe for that Samba thing. Literally the only sysadminning I had to do was to put a Linux wrapper around a proprietary Windows WiFi-card driver - and there was a GUI for that! I learned *absolutely nothing* about Linux, because I never had to! I ended up giving the laptop to a relative who was entirely computer-illiterate, and she never had problems with it, either. I used it for around a year and never had to use the command line once. *Well … except for PCLinuxOS back in 2007/2008. I’ve had to spend significantly less time dicking around to fix problems in Mint than I have in other distros,* and that’s a huge plus for me. I’m into Linux for the privacy, security, and freedom, not for the sysadminning. And having just bought my first brand-new, cutting-edge laptop in years, I’ve finally run into problems with its trailing-edge kernel support.īut if I were looking for a stable, reliable, easy-to-use distro that “just works” for my grandma, I’d probably *still* choose Mint. Samba became *unusable* … which was an upstream Ubuntu issue. I’ve been unhappy with how Cinnamon jettisoned some of its customizability in order to facilitate better scaling support. I was unhappy that Mint discontinued KDE. ) But in the sense of Mint now *stalling*, well … not really. ![]() (Manjaro users can proactively enable access to AUR if *they* want to, God help them. (Linux Mint Blog, Monthly News, June 2019) I actually don’t *use* snaps, preferring PPAs, Flatpaks, and AppImages (when available, in that order).Īs for it not mattering, well … in the sense that Mint users can proactively install snapd if they want to, sure. I remember reading lead Mint developer Clément Lefèbvre’s philosophical and strategic/”commercial” objections to Ubuntu’s exclusive control over the Snap Store last year and fundamentally agreeing with them. I’m not so sure the fear is idiotic or the decision, inane. Therefore, the owner is ME., and I can do with it whatever I freaking an idiotic fear driving inane decisions to eliminate snap doesn’t matter much.” And that includes, programs, servers, services, kernels, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And I want no back-doors, front-doors, side-doors, windows, etc.-etc., on my computer, except for the ones I myself put in it. I want no-one controlling how I use my computer except ME. One of the reasons why I got into Linux in the first place is because I want no-one telling me how to use my computer except ME. I personally see no problem with this (i.e. Therefore, because what Ubuntu is doing goes against what open-source software is about, Linux-Mint’s disabling the “Snap” by default, but also giving you the choice of whether-or-not you want to re-enable it (and is giving you detailed and explicit and easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand instructions on how to do that). (And that includes the “snap” stuff Ubuntu has added). Therefore, that means that Ubuntu’s source-code is the same as Linux-Mint’s, unless ] Linux-Mint changes it. ![]() Linux-Mint uses Ubuntu’s source-code as a base. If that’s true, f u mint and hello manjaro. Ubuntu 20.04 shipped with an empty Chromium package and is acting "without your consent, as a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store" according to the blog post on the Linux Mint Linux Mint 20, “APT will forbid snapd from getting installedâ€.â€Įven if i like i cant do: sudo apt-get install snapd This breaks one of the major worries many people had when Snap was announced and a promise from its developers that it would never replace APT. In other words, as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to continue to use Chromium and installs itself behind your back. Ubuntu is planning to replace the Chromium repository package with an empty package which installs the Chromium snap. Ubuntu planned to replace the Chromium repository package with an empty package that installs the Chromium snap, and that would make snap a requirement for users to continue using Chromium. What we didn’t want it to be was for Canonical to control the distribution of software between distributions and 3rd party editors, to prevent direct distribution from editors, to make it so software worked better in Ubuntu than anywhere else and to make its store a requirement. ![]()
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