Comments by "Seegal Galguntijak" (@Seegalgalguntijak) on "Rob Braxman Tech" channel.

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  3. Thanks for this comprehensible explanation! I've been using Linux on a desktop since 2006, and there were maybe two or three times when I've had to run a compiler, and none past, say, 2015. Here's my history with Desktop Linux: I've started with Debian Etch (and parallel to that, also Kubuntu 6.06 for a short time - back in KDE 3.5 times, I was a KDE fan), then Lenny when Etch became stable and Testing was "freezed" feature-wise. Then at some time, there came KDE4, so I switched to Gnome2 and with that also to Ubuntu, I think it was 9.04 at first, which I then upgraded to 10.04 LTS. Starting with 12.04 however, they introduced their new Unity desktop, which I didn't like, so I was looking around for what I wanted to use and ending up with Mint because of the Cinnamon desktop environment, which was still configurable to look and act like a modernized version of Gnome2 (MATE wasn't a thing yet back then, and later on when it existed, I found it to look somewhat out of date). Mint always had some disadvantages over Ubuntu, like not including kernel updates by default (never had a problem with doing them anyways), and also no dist-upgrades, which they later on started changing towards better solutions (although the warning about kernel updates are still unnnecessary in my opinion, and the dist-upgrade is currently still as much work or more as reinstalling the system). At the same time however, Ubuntu became worse and worse, with switching from Unity to Gnome3, which completely threw all known-to-me concepts of GUI usage over board, not offering an official Cinnamon flavour, and most recently the introduction of the proprietary SNAP package format. Oh, SNAP packages and the package manager can still be open source, but the only server that will ever distribute snap packages is run and owned by Canonical, and it is not open source software. So they want their gatekeeper role of software distribution, and I cannot accept that, therefore nowadays I always advise against Ubuntu, even for people who think their GUI is good. It's just inacceptable. Plus, I once installed a calculator app via snap on a PC (not mine), and it was somewhere around 25MB (I was like WTF is wrong here, this should be only a few kB or maybe a Meg or two), and when I clicked onto the launcher for the program to load, it took something like 30 seconds to load a zucking calculator! So it's slow, meaning resource inefficient and therefore absolutely out of the race. Hence: No Ubuntu here. Mint fortunately uses Flatpak, which at least is a truely free package format, where everybody can set up their own flatpak repository to distribute their own software... I thought about trying Arch or Manjaro, but in reality, I'm lazy, and why try something new when the thing I've got works so well for me? On my home server, I run Debian, because it has no GUI, it runs my Nextcloud to function as the backend of my phone. Although, I think I'm still on Buster there and should probably upgrade it to Bullseye...darn laziness! ;)
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