Maybe they fixed that part, but that isn’t a good thing. Now you can’t feel whether something is installed as snap and will probably run into snap issues without a clue what could be causing them.

Copied from another comment I wrote about that:

Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.

Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.

But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox and press Y? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.

Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole

Something like mint or fedora is just as easy to install and has less issues than ubuntu (snaps)

Use something other than gnome and, while you’re at it, you might as well use something other than ubuntu.

KDE is very hard to break, you can go wild with customization there.

That’s mostly politics as well.

Installing arch is a great way to learn. Also don’t be scared of daily driving it, it’s not like it breaks twice a week. More like once a year, which is better than ubuntu in my experience.

I know a lot of people my age (early 20s) who use tiktok and have no idea what tracking or privacy mean.

Kids might be smart, but if this is all they’ve known and it works well enough they don’t pay attention and don’t use their critical thinking.

But the deck can also be used for gaming with zero tinkering, so kids will do that.

KDEs wobbly windows will convert almost any child to linux.

Which distro and GPU? I’ve had a terrible experience with my 1070 Ti across Windows, kubuntu and arch and I didn’t even try Wayland.

Nvidia driver updates break things all the time. Just rollback and wait a few weeks before you try updating again.

Try Smarttube, it’s a joy to use.

I use SmartTube on my android TV and it’s great. If you can find an android TV box that doesn’t come with malware preinstalled or get android running on the pi, I highly recommend it.

It was already discovered that that was a big and game devs need to fix it manually for now.

Excel is a problem since it changes constantly and relies so much on the mouse. I’m a developer and struggle every time I’m forced to use it.

Search engines have also gotten terrible over the last few years so it’s a pretty bad time to learn how to use a computer. Old videos from the 90s and 2000s are great to learn the basics, but unfortunately you can’t really follow along.

Paid courses for the basics of MS office exist, maybe you’ll be able to find one that starts from zero and teaches the basics of using a computer at all.

Thanks, I’ve been looking for a comparison like that but search engines have just gotten ridiculously bad. /e/ slacking on the webview updates is interesting and steers me away from it.

I’m leaning towards the fairphone right now because it’s cheaper at 256GB and not smaller than my current phone. DivestOS looks like it does most of what grapheneOS would do for me.

Yes and it isn’t rated IPX7 for that reason, just IP55. I wouldn’t hold it under the faucet but it should be perfectly fine for daily use.

Fun fact: It’s still entirely possible to make a phone water resistant even if it has a removable back. Samsung did it in 2014 with the S5. Glass backs are just there to make it easier to break a phone, not for any technical reason.

I already have Osmand and while it’s a great offline map, it can’t pick the fastest route for me every single day.

If you wrote good code, even a caveman would understand it.

Not bad packages

I’ve made the opposite experience. There were loads of snap-specific issues when I used ubuntu. So many that I now recommend not using ubuntu just because of snaps.