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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That’s the proprietary app container system pushed by Canonical who maintains Ubuntu. That’s as opposed to something more widely accepted like flatpak. I’m not an expert on everything Canonical has done to piss of the FOSS community, but I think snaps are the biggest one.

    And in regular old Linux Mint Cinnamon you don’t have to deal with that, and you can still lean on Ubuntu’s apt repositories.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Don't forget that they're buddy buddy with amazon, and have even included amazon sourced ads within the OS at one point.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Did ubuntu so that or mint? I can't quite tell from your comment

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Ahh OK. Thanks for the info. I used flatpak on cinnamon now. I prefer KDE but its just hard to beat Mint.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    I’m good with cinnamon myself, but you can totally install KDE on mint instead. It is just Linux after all.

    When I do a search for mint kde, this is the first result and has step by step instructions. It looks like it can be as simple as apt install kde-standard or kde-full.

    https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/

    I’m tempted, and I may mess with it some day, but honestly after tweaking some settings I’m pretty happy with how my cinnamon desktop performs.