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Switched to LMDE and love it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.world

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No hate to Ubuntu LTS (my old OS) as I think for an entry to Linux, it's about the best there is, and then I just got used to it and then I started getting more and more annoyed with Snaps.

FFWD a couple of years and I decided to switch to Mint but I wanted something that was entirely free of Snaps, not just blocked, so LMDE seemed the best fit. I get all the good bits of Mint without the Canonical enforced stuff. It's been running a week now and after plenty of tweaks (installing Gnome for example) looks and feels exactly how I wanted it without interference from Canonical.

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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just found them incredibly slow and I don't like the fact that Canonical have a good go at forcing you to use them, even going as far as not shipping Flathub.

I am in no way an expert - I do use the terminal for some things (node apps etc) but other than that, I use the GUI for everything.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got it. Thanks, I was curious. I mostly use the terminal for meeting sure I can use gifs as a desktop background, just customization stuff, haha.

I don't even notice the snaps. You mean there installation process via snaps is slower or the programs run slower?

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

The install process mainly - it used to hang quite a lot for me. But, maybe that was something I had misconfigured.

[–] Montagge@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't have a ton of snaps installed but haven't noticed any degradation in speed so far for something like Firefox.

Also I don't think Ubuntu shipped with flatpak before snaps. Some of the other flavors of Ubuntu did but chose to go with snaps instead. You can always install flatpak if you want.

Not that anyone has to be okay with snaps or the direction Canonical is going. I've been eyeballing LMDE myself!

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I should've been clearer - the speed issues were to do with installation (and updating) rather than running speed. The whole process seemed very slow and hung quite often. But, as I just said to @Varyk, maybe that was a misconfiguration on my part.

I'm definitely not an Ubuntu hater at all, its just the culmination of a few things like the Snaps coupled with Canonical's slightly weird attitude was enough to make me want to switch.

As for LMDE, I definitely recommend it. It's solid as a rock and once I put Gnome on it, was exactly how I wanted it.