ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace

Oh wow! Has. It ben that long already? In 2008 I had just graduated from software engineering and started my first career job. It took me months before I found a job because of the economic crash. And when I found one, the pay was shit. Cost of living wasn’t as high though so it was ok.

For desktop apps you’ll be fine for the most part. But if you need to install a module for your hardware or some other system software it gets more complicated.

Ah sorry. I was referring to Bazzite.

I tend to prefer flatpak over snaps myself. Depends for what.

It’s not that they can’t be installed. But that the process is highly technical for newbies.

It’s lemmy.ml Consider that a badge of honor.

What are they doing??? Siding with the Nazis???

Have they learned nothing?

See? That’s why Satya Nadella doesn’t care about Windows. Soon nobody will be able to afford a PC anyways.

Yeah it wasn’t mandatory back in the s10 days years ago. But times have changed.

I have a Samsung phone and it is mandatory to have a Samsung account to use it.

Just don’t bring it. Bring a digital pocket camera instead to document stuff.

Nowadays, you can’t use a mobile phone without signing in to some Google service or Apple. It’s mandatory. Giving them access to every data you own.

Machado is a traitor to her own people. I hope she gets what’s coming to her.

That’s interesting. I kind of feel the same way. Snap seem great and have improved a bit. But it lacks certain controls that Flatpak has.

It also covers more than just desktop apps, you can install a lot of other software in sandboxes.

You’re not wrong.

But, what about Snaps? What’s your take on these?

I can’t recommend to a newcomer a distro that can potentially break or introduce bugs or vulnerabilities with software that’s too bleeding edge. That’s why I’ll never recommend Arch or even Fedora. And Bazzite is really too gaming focused and you can only install software through flatpaks. (I know there’s other ways, but we’re talking about newbies here. We need to keep it simple.)

I think Zorin OS did a really good job at customizing Gnome to make it the way it should have been. As for limiting customizeability, I don’t think that’s necessarily bad. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by KDE’s customization options. Vanilla Gnome has too little. Zorin’s desktop is just right.

But that’s my opinion.

kubuntu is trash

That’s like… your opinion, man.

Hey! Welcome to the fediverse!

You’re not wrong. I think there’s definitely room for some improvements.

And sometimes too many customizations can become confusing. I tend to keep everything vanilla to avoid things breaking, except for a few things. I installed a Win 10 theme and even a Win 10 style Tile start menu because I love the concept so much.

I know it’s controversial in a Linux community, but I absolutely LOVED the Windows 10 ergonomics. Square, flat, predictable, and your eyes can quickly pick up the necessary information and you can navigate faster with a mouse. Plus with the Powertoys that added the fancy zones feature, that was perfect. I get all of this in KDE.

I’m using Kubuntu LTS and I’m gaming just fine.