2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

  • @Locuralacura@lemm.ee
    15•7 months ago

    I’ve used Ubuntu for 10 years. I love it for stability, ease, and simplicity If i need to do anything there are plenty of guides. I learned how to do a lot of cool stuff on linux but I don’t really need or want to do any of it.

    Mostly I just pirate movies, use a vpn, torrent, listen to music, write. My career doesn’t require much computer stuff. Why should I try something different?

    I’m not working with a huge amount of interest in or energy for complicated customization. I just wanna turn it on and have it work.

    • @pathief@lemmy.world
      12•7 months ago

      Power to you, friend. But with current snap store out of the box it’s really hard to recommend Ubuntu to anyone. Linux Mint seems such a better choice to newbies.

      At the end of the day it’s not really a big deal, people should just use whatever feels best.

      • @Locuralacura@lemm.ee
        5•7 months ago

        What is wrong with the snap store? It’s not something I’m aware of.

        I go to terminal. I sudo apt-get

        I get Firefox, I get my VPN, I get deluge, I get my audio player.

        I use those things. I sleep well at night.

        • @pathief@lemmy.world
          0•7 months ago

          If you use apt-get you aren’t using snaps, you are unaffected.

          Snap is a format created by Canonical which has a really funky proprietary back end. The default application store in Ubuntu uses this format and has been plagued with an impersonation problem. Since everyone could submit snaps there was a lot of spyware posing as legit software. My main gripe was when the snap store just decided to unilaterally close and update my Firefox while I was using it.

          Linux Mint does NOT have snaps and even had a debian based version. Pretty neat

            • @provisional
              1•7 months ago

              I believe this is correct. Ubuntu installs the snap package if there is an equivalent package available. So even if you use apt, you still get snaps.

            • @pathief@lemmy.world
              0•7 months ago

              apt uses debians packages and debian repositories. Unless they recently created an alias or something, it should install debian packaged version!