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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Xubuntu LTS on my work laptop some 10 years now. All the customization I do is remove snaps and add flatpaks. It just works.

I have RHEL and derivatives on my work machines, where I spend most of my day. I don't like the RPM package system, which they tried to improve upon several times already. I don't like Gnome, is too opinionated for me.

I had a colleague who used Gentoo, to claim superiority. His laptop spent most of the day burning kilowatts with the fans blowing. Not for me. Having everyone build packages from source is very unneficient. "Oh, but the security of building your own binaries! " Well, did you look at the code you're building? No? Well then.

I end up always going back to the DEB ecosystem, with a XFCE desktop. Lately I've been using Manjaro with XFCE and Flatpaks, no AUR.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the benefits of using Flatpacks over Docker shit?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, docker for services, flatpak for desktop applications.

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

Couldn't I simply use docker for both and eliminate redundancy?

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

Docker is not optimized for desktop and Flatpaks aren't optimized for running services. You'll spend more time & effort making both of them work and still end up with sub-optimal experiences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this info!

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

One cold argue that "desktop" is merely a kind of a service

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To everyone's detriment