ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace

I bought a Sony Bravia in 2009. A 720p flat screen TV. It was my first one after switching from a CRT. It’s sitting in my living room with my retro consoles connected to it via coaxial and RCA cables. No need for converters or anything.

Ugh! Why??? They have good TVs! Bravia are great!

For desktop apps you’ll be fine for the most part. But if you need to install a module for your hardware or some other system software it gets more complicated.

Ah sorry. I was referring to Bazzite.

I tend to prefer flatpak over snaps myself. Depends for what.

It’s not that they can’t be installed. But that the process is highly technical for newbies.

See? That’s why Satya Nadella doesn’t care about Windows. Soon nobody will be able to afford a PC anyways.

Hahahahahahahaha yeah probably

No I wasn’t really serious.

The vet could’ve asked first and save the owner a lot of money.

Yeah it wasn’t mandatory back in the s10 days years ago. But times have changed.

I have a Samsung phone and it is mandatory to have a Samsung account to use it.

Just don’t bring it. Bring a digital pocket camera instead to document stuff.

Nowadays, you can’t use a mobile phone without signing in to some Google service or Apple. It’s mandatory. Giving them access to every data you own.

It’s normally done by congress before they start shooting missiles.

This is crazy. Was this war even approved by congress?

Jewish people are in more danger thanks to Israel. So yeah.

That’s interesting. I kind of feel the same way. Snap seem great and have improved a bit. But it lacks certain controls that Flatpak has.

It also covers more than just desktop apps, you can install a lot of other software in sandboxes.

You’re not wrong.

But, what about Snaps? What’s your take on these?

I can’t recommend to a newcomer a distro that can potentially break or introduce bugs or vulnerabilities with software that’s too bleeding edge. That’s why I’ll never recommend Arch or even Fedora. And Bazzite is really too gaming focused and you can only install software through flatpaks. (I know there’s other ways, but we’re talking about newbies here. We need to keep it simple.)

I think Zorin OS did a really good job at customizing Gnome to make it the way it should have been. As for limiting customizeability, I don’t think that’s necessarily bad. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by KDE’s customization options. Vanilla Gnome has too little. Zorin’s desktop is just right.

But that’s my opinion.