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[+] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I install most of my software via Flatpak and Snap anyway, so I don't need the latest and greatest in terms of apt packages, and Debian brings the benefit of a rock solid base.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I agree, so many people disregard Debian, but if you're not gaming and don't need to keep up with the latest things - Debian is rock solid and most of your packages you can just use flatpak. For the majority of daily users who aren't gaming, I think it's a super solid choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    i don't recommend ubuntu anymore. recently tried it on my laptop and holy hell it's bad. couldn't install flatpaks and the only way to install from repo was to use terminal. couldn't get any version of steam to work at all. and I've been a linux user for years now...

    also for some reason mint wouldn't install on the same thinkpad, the installer wouldn't boot at all, just gave some grub message. also fedora was no success, the usb media wasn't recognized. ultramarine finally worked even though it's just fedora with tweaks. some say it's a bad thing to have tons of distros, but for me it's been a blessing. one distro won't work for every pc.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    i looked up multiple guides to enable flatpaks and all i achieved was that i could install them from terminal, but the apps never actually appeared so i couldn't run them.
    took me a while to realize the default store is snap only, but i couldn't install another store either (can't remember why). if i wasn't so pissed i probably could've figured it out, but steam not working was too much of a dealbreaker that it wasn't worth the effort

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    For me all i had to do was a handfull of commands to get flatpaks to appear in the software store. https://flathub.org/en/setup/Ubuntu

    I think it is annoying that Ubuntu software store defaults to snaps, and it is easy to not notice this at first and be mystified why you can't find normal apt packages.

    Also, snap and flatpak packages often have problems that the system version doesn't have. For example, flatpak Firefox cannot access machines over the local network by their network names (e.g. hostname.local), and that is just a limitation of flatpaks.

    The snap for Steam also sucks but it is useable enough at first that I wasted a bunch of time trying to get it to work better, and eventually just installed the .deb the way Valve intended.

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