• jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    NGL sometimes you can only find the software you want as a snap, it sucks, but it’s the price you pay for not using Windows or Mac. At the end of the day, it’s Windows 11, OSX or Ubuntu for most folks outside of Lemmy. I really want to swap to Mint w Debian, but they don’t have support for MATE out of the box. Maybe in a year or two. Hoping 24.04 LTS works well.

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      7 months ago

      Debian has had MATE since forever. It’s as simple as typing

      sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment
      

      Honestly you don’t even need Ubuntu if you absolutely need snaps. You can install snapd on a lot of apt distros, or you can spin an Ubuntu container in Distrobox in a few seconds.

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      7 months ago

      Im a total noob, just started using Linux, dual booting with mint and I’ve already learned to use snap