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    I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project (slrpnk.net)
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    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 116 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    It's not that successful if the userbase hates it and would rather use a competitor.

    [–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    For me it was a successful deterrent. Debian bookworm has been wonderful.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Yeah I love it, Debian feels like opening a featureless gray box that just says "OS" on the front. Add whatever you want. A blank canvas. It's as close to "generic" Linux as you can get.

    [–] Whayle@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I installed mint on my second PC, and it's great. I feel like migrating my main, but I'm not sure it would go smoothly. I've had a lot of issues with my four months old Ubuntu install, lately the keyboard is nonfunctional at the login screen about half the time. Snaps are another reason making me want to leave it behind.

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

    I found out I could dual boot Linux at work and went right for Mint. I think it’s great. It’s a nice pragmatic choice for people like me who love using Linux and are constantly in a bash prompt, but who don’t want to build up a system from scratch and who are fine not running the very latest.

    It’s even downstream from some of the most popular distros out there, but without Canonical’s controversial shit.