What tools to work with pkgs installed thru snap system

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 15:32, J. Paul Bissonnette <jpaulb at eastlink.ca> wrote:

> Usually intermittent issues, with apps.
> Panel eg.
> 1) bottom panel Right side I have Network connection, update list,
> volume control. Sometimes these are duplicates other times not.
> Sometimes when I click on the network connection icon a notification
> pops up that covers all the choices.

What desktop? What version?

> 2) After an update jpilot refuses to sync. works perfect on Ubuntustudio
> even with the latest updates.

Never seen or heard of it, so no comment.

> 3) Synaptic: keep giving a warning
> updating cache waiting for synaptic to exit. have to exit then restart
> the app.

Do a full upgrade the proper way with apt:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo apt clean
sudo apt purge

Then reboot.

Mint is very cautious about updates and only installs vital security
updates. Me personally, I want all updates, so I ignore the Mint tools
and do a full upgrade from the command line, daily.

> Just a bunch of annoying little things that doesn't place Mint anywhere
> near the top of my list of distros I would want to install on another
> box.

It's a bit like macOS in over conception: it automates more stuff for
you. If you just go along with that, it's fine. If you don't and you
want to customise it, you have to do more work than in you would have
to do in Ubuntu, and maybe you need to turn off some Mint features.

But once it's done, it should be fine.

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