Unfortunately you need something with long firmware and software support. Qualcomm is your enemy, they stop updating the firmware of their chips after about two years and that’s why android phones often stop getting updates less than 2 years after you buy them.

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.

Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don’t are just bad imo.

Because it isn’t anything new.

Yeah we need to stop giving corporations rights that only humans deserve.

Isn’t the web version a full client that works without a phone nearby nowadays?

Do you think the cars on amazon will be cheaper than sticker price and save you the negotiation?

But what makes ubuntu better as a first distro than mint or fedora? It installs snaps even when you specifically invoke apt, a new user who doesn’t understand the messages will press yes, see that it seemed to work and have issues later that can scare them away from linux.

What I’m trying to say is that we should bash the people still recommending ubuntu.

I agree that creating a culture of sustainability is a good thing, but the example I gave does the exact opposite. It alienates people, especially the ones who now live in fear of going bankrupt when their heating breaks and they aren’t allowed to repair it anymore.

But that doesn’t matter. The real issue is that people heat their homes with oil or gas. Luckily our great leaders are fighting the actual problems! /s

What a weird way to say “We don’t like french people”

There is nothing about windows 11 that’s better than on windows 10. Why would anyone switch voluntarily?

Windows 10 at least had better automatic driver installation, touchscreen and multi-monitor support compared to 7, but came with a shitload of ads built right into it. Windows 11 has even more ads, but what does it give you?

People who preorder a phone are out of their fucking mind, simple as that.

Proprietary nvidia driving well?

I’m currently considering buying an AMD GPU just so that I don’t constantly have to troubleshoot the nvidia driver when I want to game.

Enshittification spares no one.

Ah yes, vendor lock-in in desktop linux.

I don’t get why anyone thinks this is acceptable in any way.

Except you have to wait 5 seconds before it goes brrrr because of snaps.