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Snap seemed like a cool idea until I tried it
It still has the most software support for causal users if you don't want to go the Arch route and trust the AUR. But I think this will change with the rise of Immutable Distros, that will become the standard for people who just want a stable system that works + Flatpaks.
What software do you think casuals use these days? The casual home user wants Chrome and literally nothing more. That's how they can consume YouTube, Spotify, pirate movie streams, and web games. In the last 20 or so years the average PC user has been gradually become more and more computer illiterate. If you are a PC gamer who actually installs games to the hard drive, you're way above the average already.
With causal user, I mean someone who hasn't a deep understanding of their OS and not someone who only does the most basic stuff. Maybe wrong choice of words. Causual users like you described are a dying minority since Smartphones and tablets are enough for the most basic tasks these days.
This is new, debian used to be either way behind or broken for less popular packages, but that has completely reversed over the past decade, people just haven't gotten over the perception yet.
Vendor and community support too. It's a significant reason why it's often the second OS option at corps after Windows.
Even better, Debian 12 comes with LXD on the repository.
It’s been a while since I’ve used Ubuntu. What happened?
Forcing Snaps, and requiring all official Ubuntu flavors to remove Flatpak support out of the box. You can still install Flatpak support afterwards, but it continues to rub the Linux community the wrong way.
This might shed some light.
Yeah, Linux users have always had a blind spot for dependency hell when talking about freedom of choice.
I think it affects a sliver of the community that lies above the complete novice, but not quite technically adept. The place that gives you a feeling that you have knowledge but you haven't reached the level where you understand how much you don't know. I think that's the place which breeds this sort of sentiment we see around this issue.
They want Ubuntu users to use snap, which unsurprisingly isn't very popular.
One of the main arguments for picking Ubuntu over Debian was the installation process, but Debian made the installation process much easier, by allowing non-free firmware.
Ubuntu got worse, and Debian got better, anyone unhappy with Ubuntu should just switch to Debian with Gnome and the problem is largely solved.
Also debian used to have ancient packages, or broken ones in testing. Now stable is fairly up to date so Ubuntu lost its value, it was just a newer stable really.
There's also LMDE as an option.
Snap mainly, at least for me
Much ado about nothing.
True. I installed this OS, deleted a random component without any dependency analysis and it broke. Plz help.