Don’t use snaps.
Seriously.
Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together.
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago[deleted]
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s not safe, but some people just wanna dance with the bear.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Flatpaks are nice though
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Of the options… Flatpaks are, IMO, the best.
I still avoid them whenever humanly possible.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well, best practice in atomic distros is to rpm-ostree as minimally as possible in most cases, and then flatpak everything else. It helps a lot with modularity.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Just to mention also, I’ve been running Debian for much longer than I care to think about (since my teen years, I’m now in my 40s), with config file requirements that make arch look like lazy mode by comparison.
If you have to use something, flatpak wins, but personally I’d lean away from any of it as much as possible. The Debian stable repos are stable, so what’s in there will work. Add flatpak to KDE Discover by installing plasma-discover-backend-flatpak to get that option in there.
But snaps should be strictly off limits. For everyone, tbh.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are you one of the like dozen people that run Debian Unstable?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
… Yes. But only on one machine.
Mostly its stable (all of my servers, an editing machine, etc) but I’ll do silly things when I need to try something, like image a drive, change the sources to testing/unstable, do what I need to do to test, then reimage.
And recently started running EndeavourOS then Arch because I honestly spend too much time in Debian and felt like poking around at other solutions again, which I do every several years or so.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thank you for your service and dedication to the craft.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I was installing a Snap app for the first time.
That’s a mistake. #SSoT #WET
irotsoma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Debian tends to require a lot of tweaking to get it to work well with more modern things. I’ve never gotten video and audio hardware to work out of the box to my satisfaction, for example. Ubuntu is definitely easier to use out of the box. But I also don’t like the way Canonical has been taking it lately. And since I’ve been using CENTOS for servers for many, many years and more recently Rocky Linux, I decided to give Fedora another try after a failed attempt like a decade ago (I think the version at the time was Verne).
Combined with Plasma as a front end, Fedora is awesome. Some things aren’t there that I’d prefer and flatpacks and snaps always have minor, annoying issues, but for the most part it does everything I need and even supports my fairly new laptop with a touchscreen and pretty modern hardware without any tweaking.
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 10 months ago
This was all good except I’d be remiss to not point out that millions of pancakes wouldn’t slow a cargo train at all.
Proceed.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Give Fedora Kinoite a shot. Atomic distros are the shit. If you fuck it up, you literally just reboot, roll back, and you are up and running again. I’m finally starting the process of migrating off of windows and onto Bazzite for my desktop (because it doubles as my gaming machine), but I’ve been using Kinoite on my personal dev laptop for a while now and it’s awesome! It’s a bit of a paradigm shift from a traditional distro, but it’s really not that hard to figure out and adjust to.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Am not gonna take away bootloader customization and going flatpack first hell nah dunno why people are like “ItS HaRd tO BrEaK ThE oS”
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Because some people like having a daily driver that just works, period. I can spin up a container or VM (or baremetal install) on one of my other boxes if I want to do some sort of work that needs it, but for the use cases of human:homelab interface and gaming box, I like that stability and recoverability are first-order concerns. I can generally figure out what else is going on as long as I have a reliable entry point.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Sure
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 10 months ago
With respect, you can screw up Windows by doing things in a non-standard way too. That’s not the fault of the OS.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apples to oranges. Generally you can fix what you did wrong in windows. In Linux good luck.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
You can fix what you did wrong in Linux. People are just less used to troubleshooting Linux problems than Windows problems because they’ve used Windows more, by and large
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are you literally in a Linux community to proclaim that Windows is the better OS because it gives you the freedom to screw it up?
My brother in computing, that’s on you if you’re having problems with fixing problems you’ve caused in Linux. As a former professional system admin, I’ve run into issues with Windows that Microsoft’s own support team could not figure out and had to refund their fee. I have never, not once, had an issue in Linux that I couldn’t fix or find someone who knows how.
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s kinda hilarious that I was just about to say the inverse. Linux is yours too fix, and Windows is not.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 10 months ago
The person in the anecdote above seemed to have a pretty “good luck”