Also, stop slobbering over shuttlecock. Centralized repos run by big corporation is not free as in libre, it's free - as in free to rug pull you into a SaaS model.
"But you can make your own!"
If you modify the client and if you recreate the backend to actually make snaps. It's in essence proprietary technology posing as open source.
Also, I do use flatpaks on my NixOS to get packages directly from vendors and not from some wannabe app store. Yes, Flathub allows vendors to post directly.
Even though the FreeDesktop dependencies are big, it's still much more free than snaps.
Bish, I use NixOS. I have defeated dependency hell by sacrificing storage space to just say "fudge it, give me ALL THE DEPENDENCIES!!! Rip off their ELF heads!!".
Reminds me, back in like, 2007, Nine Inch Nails did a promotion for their new album where they left "mystery" USB drives with media from the "future", themed from album, in public areas at their shows. People couldn't wait to find them and jam them into their computers to piece the story all together.
Hey, same boat. I've tried FreeCAD and Ondsel (which is supposed to be a more intuitive version of FreeCAD)... But they are both so unintuitive that it drives me nuts and I just boot into Windows when i want to design something functional to 3D Print.
Luckily Blender works great on Linux for less functional designs.
People that chose the "red" drive ... Once you install Ubuntu a mysterious shaman will once again introduce you to the red and blue choice, ... well, I mean, not exactly, it will be just a giant bag of mixed pills drives for different distros and the ominous warning be like "you only really need to take one, but there is no actual limit".
Microsoft blocks people from downloading stuff all the time for unknowable reasons. You have to either reset your IP or go through customer support to fix it. I did the latter and they did not tell me why I was blocked in the first place.
“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with your computer. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”
But when he took the red pill he was relegated to eating a bowl of snot as his only food and living in a hellscape and had to fight a never-ending war whilst still having to regularly go back in to the matrix he was supposedly escaping. I mean I guess, great, for humanity but it doesn't make picking Linux sound like a great time if you're going to use that analogy.
I couldn't pick red if I wanted. Something happened with the USB when I flashed it and most of its space was unusable so I could use linux. And the fact I can't use games with anti- cheat, I don't know if that changed though
You can play most games with AC. There's only a handful that don't work. Kernel-level AC, for example, obviously won't work if they don't release a Linux version (which you should probably avoid installing). There's also some Chinese games with their own AC that isn't supported yet, and that's a choice they've made.
Latitudes and then XPS are the business-class, I think. I have a couple XPS Studios that have long outlived their usefulness. Integrated video, that's why they survived the bad BGA era. ;)
*only if it's a business machine as far as I know. A friend who's working for a company selling those B2B keeps telling me how often they get XPS returned, apparently modern variants just keep failing. Latitudes on the other hand seem almost indestructible.