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  • In the update settings she can reset her apt sources back to “default”. It’s not too hard and there’s a gui throughout the process (from memory).

    The package conflicts is an interesting one, if you have the time to post one of these on lemmy I’m sure someone will suggest a fix. It’s probably a apt install --fix-broken or something simple (hopefully) but I’m sure we could work it out.

    Totally agree that these are annoying issues though. See if you can use Nala, it’s a TUI front end for Apt and it’s got some nice user changes like if you run upgrade it updates and upgrades. It also has a fetch feature which finds nearby sources, so you’re always downloading from the closest/fastest source.


















  • JoshCodes@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlEveryone loves snaps
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    7 months ago

    What about all the other pros of ubuntu?

    Off the top of my head,

    • their power management is better than any other distro for laptops.
    • Their compatibility with WiFi drivers is better than many others, granted that’s not exclusive to ubuntu but it is a pro.
    • theyre more up to date than debian but stable while actually coming with Wayland support unlike Mint. Timeshift is great tho, good thing it’s compatible with ubuntu.
    • their community is much larger than many other distro so support is easier to find.
    • it’s just not a bad distro. There’s not a lot of other distros that match its out-of-the-box experience.

    Other distros are good. PopOS is good. I chose Ubuntu mostly because it’s solid and stable but also because it has a wide community for help. I’m just getting tired of the narrative that ubuntu is totally crippled by its snaps. This is a linux distro, if I don’t like something I get to change it, which is actually cool. This isn’t windows where I have no control. Also, with snaps gone, I’ve literally never had a problem I haven’t caused. I have the approach of strip out what I don’t want. Arch users install what they do want. At the end of the day, we both are exploiting software we want to use to be productive. If I found myself fighting the os (like Mac or Windows) I’d switch but I don’t so I won’t.


  • JoshCodes@programming.devtoMemes@lemmy.mlEveryone loves snaps
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    7 months ago

    I started using ubuntu 2 years ago and its great. Just disable snaps. It’s like 5 commands (and you have to reinstall Firefox).

    You stop snap store from running, disable it from restarting then set apt over snap store as default.

    It’s not hard. I did it day 1 of using Linux. Plus there’s guides a plenty on how to do it.