2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

  • pathief@lemmy.world
    21·
    11 months ago

    If you use apt-get you aren’t using snaps, you are unaffected.

    Snap is a format created by Canonical which has a really funky proprietary back end. The default application store in Ubuntu uses this format and has been plagued with an impersonation problem. Since everyone could submit snaps there was a lot of spyware posing as legit software. My main gripe was when the snap store just decided to unilaterally close and update my Firefox while I was using it.

    Linux Mint does NOT have snaps and even had a debian based version. Pretty neat

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      1·
      11 months ago

      Correct me if I am wrong, but apt-get install firefox installs the snap version unless you go out of your way to fix that?