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Trying to get my partner to switch from Windows to Linux. Has anyone tried Scrivener with Wine?
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On the distros: Go with mint. ubuntu has snaps which are the perfect way to scare new users away. They make everything super slow to launch and cause errors that make no sense if you don't know how snaps work.
And worst of all, if you type "sudo apt install firefox", hit enter and press Y, you won't get what you asked for. You'll get the snap version of firefox and the only way to know that is if you read and understand the output of apt.
Well non tech literate people probably wont notice the start up time and they shouldn't be using the terminal
Normal users do care about whether their browser takes 1 or 5 seconds to start up. That's the difference between a new device and one from 3 years ago.
And for those that aren't comfortable with the terminal, snaps are an even bigger issue. All their apps will be slow and glitchy and they won't have any idea why.
@nottheengineer is this also the case with Ubuntu server? If so is there a way to turn that shit off,
They are definitely pushing it there too, but not as hard. There isn't a way to disable this shitty behaviour, you need to manually set apt up to not pull snaps for every package individually.
@nottheengineer well thanks for letting me know anyway, this probably explains a lot of the docker issues I have been encountering which are "snap only" problems, despite me installing through apt
Oh yeah, I learned about snap the hard way with docker as well.
I'd highly recommend using a different distro for that.
@nottheengineer what do you suggest? problem is I'm limited since my home server is a raspberry pi so I'm limited to distros that support arm
I should probably give Debian a try, but I never had a good experience with Debian desktop.
I'd say debian is a good pick. I have debian LTS on my ventoy for whenever I need to partition a drive and it's been great.
I never had any issues with it, what drove you away from debian on the desktop?
You do realize non tech people have absolutely no idea about package formats and such?? If you don't understand something you should probably not worry about it
That's exactly my point. They shouldn't have to worry about it and if you pick a distro without snaps, they don't have to.