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    Linux mint = best beginner distro (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] Brekky 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What are snaps and telemetry?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Snaps are a package format that handle dependencies differently. People don't like them because of increased startup time.

    Telemetry is when software sends analytics back to the parent company. Ubuntu does very basic telemetry, but people like to compare it to Windows

    [–] ichbinjasokreativ 6 points 11 months ago

    Ubuntu asks you if you're fine with sending usage statistics to canonical and if you say 'no', the distro won't send anything and never ask you again*

    [–] Dkiscoo 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I keep hearing people complain about snaps but I don't know the good or bad about them

    [–] daniskarma 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Worse thing about snaps is that the server that provides them is propietary and owned by canonical.

    Open source people tend not to like when things are not open source.

    Other than that they are like flakpacks but blessed by canonical. Sometimes they are more curated or there's more official releases on snaps that flakpacks.

    Both are a way to deliver software without falling in dependency hell and kind of isolated and more secure(?).

    Also is a way to wait 10-15 seconds to launch a simple app so there's that.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

    The only snap I've had troubles with is vscode. Other tnsn that's it's been like using an apt app

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

    Good - Snaps are more advanced flat packs

    Bad - Made by the company that makes Ubuntu