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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • Yeah, package manager is a big one. Many of us got burned by rpm’s early on and just avoided all rpm-based distros since then.

    Of course as you say that hasn’t been a problem for over 10 years but the scars haven’t gone away.

    I’d only recommend Ubuntu to someone if I knew they knew some else using Ubuntu (so I could tell them to hassle that person instead of me when they have problems).

    Otherwise, I’d absolutely recommend Fedora, because it’s actually up to date unlike Debian. I use it myself because it tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer while not needing constant tweaking


  • It’s more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.

    It won’t prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won’t cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won’t)

    Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.

    Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.

    Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO






  • Teams is relative.

    At a previous job (Microsoft shop but in the public sector so 10 years behind), the standard messenger when I started was Skype for Business.

    In case you’ve never used Skype for Business, it’s “Skype” in branding only and actually has nothing to do with the Skype software that Microsoft purchased and is more like MSN Messenger.

    Compared to that, Teams is a huge step up.

    Also, at a Microsoft shop, you have to use what Microsoft provides even though it’s usually balls.

    It’s 90% of the reason I now refuse to work anywhere that’s bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s just so… mediocre




  • Who cares?

    Ubuntu is a shell of what it once was. They’re not going to make Snap optional, they need to justify its existence by releasing everything as snaps with no alternative so you have to use it.

    Or, just use Debian if you like Debian-style distros?

    Or, wait for it - this is gonna sound a bit radical but hear me out - give Fedora a try? Flatpak instead and unlike Debian Stable has packages from this century

    Inb4 btw I use Arch