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Ah, gotcha.

I’m not technical enough to understand the functional difference between flatpak and snap, but I know that snaps are centrally controlled by Canonical and thus I assume not as enshittification resistant as flatpak.

But from the end user perspective, they can be a lot simpler to use than PPAs for random software. For me they’re kind of a guilty pleasure.

Holy Shit, Barrier but good is here!!!

I had no idea, I thought we were all waiting for input leap to get out of alpha and release something… My heart goes out to all the devs <3

AFAIK it is packages but also default configurations. I am not an expert though this is just a guess.

Ubuntu is great. Lots of guides for things, great community support, and things usually just work. Plenty easy enough to do what you want to do without having to learn a bunch of stuff all the time.

I think this is why it is not the preferred choice for experts who want to configure everything themselves, or have strong opinions about the internals of how it works.

But I basically want to never have to think about the os if I don’t have to.

Out of curiosity, is the live USB / install experience that different than kubuntu? I’ve never tried mint.