ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace

For desktop apps you’ll be fine for the most part. But if you need to install a module for your hardware or some other system software it gets more complicated.

Ah sorry. I was referring to Bazzite.

I tend to prefer flatpak over snaps myself. Depends for what.

It’s not that they can’t be installed. But that the process is highly technical for newbies.

What are they doing??? Siding with the Nazis???

Have they learned nothing?

See? That’s why Satya Nadella doesn’t care about Windows. Soon nobody will be able to afford a PC anyways.

Great… just what we needed. Jfc

Yeah it wasn’t mandatory back in the s10 days years ago. But times have changed.

I have a Samsung phone and it is mandatory to have a Samsung account to use it.

Just don’t bring it. Bring a digital pocket camera instead to document stuff.

Nowadays, you can’t use a mobile phone without signing in to some Google service or Apple. It’s mandatory. Giving them access to every data you own.

End of NATO. Putin’s wet dream.

Read up on Machado. She’s a real capitalist enabling cunt. She probably had a role to play in all that’s happening.

It’s pretty bad not just for consumers, but producers as well. Small artists that want to do shows in a venue have to do through ticketmaster. They don’t have a choice. And the extra fees means they have to either cut down their prices to a point where they’re at a loss, or risk not having enough sales to make any money. That company is a God damn predator on the art scene.

So then ICE will just shoot first, no matter what, and you’ll get shot anyways.

For real. I don’t understand how no ICE officers have been shot by a bystander yet. Or at least met with a Black Panthers style armed militia of some kind at least.

With the rise of fascism across the western hemisphere, I doubt anyone will act.

That’s interesting. I kind of feel the same way. Snap seem great and have improved a bit. But it lacks certain controls that Flatpak has.

It also covers more than just desktop apps, you can install a lot of other software in sandboxes.

You’re not wrong.

But, what about Snaps? What’s your take on these?

I can’t recommend to a newcomer a distro that can potentially break or introduce bugs or vulnerabilities with software that’s too bleeding edge. That’s why I’ll never recommend Arch or even Fedora. And Bazzite is really too gaming focused and you can only install software through flatpaks. (I know there’s other ways, but we’re talking about newbies here. We need to keep it simple.)

I think Zorin OS did a really good job at customizing Gnome to make it the way it should have been. As for limiting customizeability, I don’t think that’s necessarily bad. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by KDE’s customization options. Vanilla Gnome has too little. Zorin’s desktop is just right.

But that’s my opinion.