Which of these popular Linux distros have you tried?

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@ricky89 fully agree with you. In my opinion, snaps are nothing more than proprietary software

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@andreas and @ricky89 Excellent debate on the pros and cons of Snaps.

I too like my software installed in the simplest form and native. I understand there might be a risk of a library conflict but so far that hasnā€™t affected me.

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Whether something is proprietary or not is of course not an opinion, that is something that can be assessed rather factually :wink: and I would like to raise the fact that snapd is open source (and for open source programs, their snap packaging is thus likely also open source), itā€™s just that the Snap Store is not. I also disagree with this and I strongly dislike it, but I just wanted to address this point.

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Iā€™ve used all of them. Linux Mint is the only one I donā€™t have currently installed somewhere.

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I looked again and I donā€™t remember ever using POP; Been a long time since Iā€™ve used Mint or Ubuntu but I have tried them.

Iā€™ve built systems with Arch and even Gentoo (a very long time ago). Endeavour OS has been a good Arch derivative for me and Iā€™ve had a few months with Cachy OS too.

Mostly I have been using moderate distribution choices and testing one other alternative at a time.

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