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I'm planning on moving to linux from windows(personal) and macos(work use), although I prefer mac os, so I don't really want to use mint, and I feel like I should add that I don't care if GNOME isn't that similar to macos, I want something different, and I also use my computer for gaming

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (8 children)

PopOS for sure. Ubuntu hasn't been great lately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Why PopOS and why isn’t Ubuntu great lately? Did I miss something?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Gotcha. Thanks for sharing. We’ll see what happens with Snap. I mostly use APT anyway. I had some few cases of Snap where it even wouldn’t update itself.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

The thing is, sometimes apt install uses snap...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I’m willing to bet snap is here to stay. Unless Ubuntu saw a drop in users since this was announced, and I haven’t heard anything of the sort except anecdotes.

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