What tools to work with pkgs installed thru snap system

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 17:20, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was referring to the initial installation of Mint. Then again I
> may not be remembering correctly as it's been awhile since I installed
> Mint on one of my machines.

Oh, I see! Fair enough then.

There were a pair of blog posts from a favourite Linux blogger of mine today:

"How new Linux users can increase their odds of success"
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/How-new-Linux-users-succeed.html

"What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream"
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/What-desktop-Linux-needs.html

They are complementary.

I think they have good points.

Current distros are _far_ too complex.

IMHO -- sorry guys -- Ubuntu has gone downhill since the switch back to GNOME.

Unity _and_ Mir _and_ Touch all at once were too big of a project, but
maybe 2 of them could have been salvaged -- but what's done is done.

The single most impressive distro I've seen recently, for integration
and completeness and polish, has been Deepin. It reminds me of where
Ubuntu was about 5 years ago.

The most popular desktop/laptop distro by far is ChromeOS, with maybe
a hundred million users, maybe more.

No distro vendor seems willing to face the lessons of ChromeOS either,
sadly... which is that for most ordinary users, they really only need
a web browser, and maybe a file manager.

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