[kwlug-disc] sadness in Ubuntu land

[Remi Gauvin]

On 2022-04-23 8:26 p.m., Ron Singh wrote:
> Whoa, that subj line made me think that someone at Ubuntu died!
> 
> Your experience with what Ubuntu did with APT, redirecting APT to a SNAP
> store is what Mint was very critical of -- Mint's response for their Ver
> 20 edition was nulling out the SNAP store and allowing APT to install a
> right proper Firefox DEB package. Mint does not release a Gnome edition,
> they do the Cinnamon/Xfce/Mate DEs and they block SNAP, a winning
> combination for me.


Mint is a good choice, I think, and I don't see any reason you can't
install Gnome DE, even though it doesn't come default.

Personallky, I've moved to MX linux and it is so far my favorite Linux
distro ever.  (Debian Stable + additional selected packages that are
better to be more current for Desktop, Hardware support, VirtualBox,,, etc.)

But Mint will have native support for 3rd party Ubuntu packages, of
which there are many now.