Comment on Flow chart for choosing a Linux distribution

• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve used both, and been very pleased with both.

  Mint stood out, last time I installed it, because every decision was easy and factual and about me (what time zone, what keyboard).

  I essentially just pressed “next” a bunch of times.

  Kubuntu was nearly that good last time I tried it, as well.

  Between the two, I generally recommend Mint primarily because it keeps the messaging simple and consistent with the community.

  Secondarily, because Mint doesn’t have Snap.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, gotcha.

    I’m not technical enough to understand the functional difference between flatpak and snap, but I know that snaps are centrally controlled by Canonical and thus I assume not as enshittification resistant as flatpak.

    But from the end user perspective, they can be a lot simpler to use than ppas for random software. For me they’re kind of a guilty pleasure.

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