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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 05:10:09 -0000 (UTC)
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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 04:18 this Friday (GMT):
> On 22 Mar 2024 02:29:21 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
><l648o1F2m1hU9@mid.individual.net>:
>
>> On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:37:02 -0400, DFS wrote:
>> 
>>> That was 2010, and it was based on the data found on this site, which
>>> at the time indicated 50% of Linux users ran Ubuntu.
>> 
>> You spend too much time in Marty McFly's Delorean. Back in 1993 50% of
>> all Linux users ran Slackware.*
>> 
>> Another statistic pulled from my butt which is as good as any.
>
> The reason so many people are running Ubuntu is that was most
> vendors install, such as Dell.
>
> System76 does have Pop!_OS, which I would have tried if the name
> wasn't so cutesy.
>
> One reason I prefer Mint is that snaps are turned off by default.
> Snaps aren't good for the Linux ecosystem, because you can't
> build your own "snap store" -- it's all Canonical's baby.


Snaps have a lot of issues, especially being propriatary.
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