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Snap startup times are awful, tens of seconds to open a simple text editor, even on an nvme ssd…

edit: Also it doesnt bother following XDG specifications, further cluttering our home folders.

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To be fair, vista and 7 had a lot of QOL improvements too.

I dont see the point of 10+ though, they pretty much just added fluff.

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these privacy extensions all overlap anyway.

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i mostly agree except its leagues ahead for sysadmins and devs, it isnt even a contest. to counter your specific example, filezilla works great. i havent used a tool for this specific niche on linux that wasnt much better.

affinity photo is great on linux too if you are not too stuck with adobe. cant say much about other usecases you mentioned.

also wine runs old software better than windows in some cases. i have better luck with it on linux. funnily enough old linux software is a pain on linux in the rare situations where i need it.

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

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I don’t have many issues on Ubuntu like you imply. It’s the reason why I stick with it despite snaps.

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quite a few games need old proton IME

not many, but enough to make a difference.

"Must Try" distros and DEs?

Hey folks! I’m getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I’m planning to convert into a “cyberdeck” with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in...

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that means the joke is on point i hope?

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people are rebuffing the criticism already.

heres the main advantage imo:

no messy system or leftovers. some programs use directories all over the place and it gets annoying fast if you host many services. sometimes you will have some issue that requires you to do quite a bit of hunting and redoing things.

docker makes this painless. you can deploy and redeploy stuff easily and quickly, without a mess. updates are painless and quick too, with everything neatly self-contained.

much easier to maintain once you get the hang of things.

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also ruins a young girl full of potential

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That seems to be what this guy wants to address.

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why are people that allergic to firefox?

vivaldi is chrome with extra steps

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get firefox and ublock origin.

its so fucking simple, why do people have such weird attachment to chrome??

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what are you talking about this is great taste

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tbf most of those “easy life hacks” are phony anyway

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lineageos has a convenient way to turn off those sensors too. i dont keep them on.

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