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Switched to LMDE and love it (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.world
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No hate to Ubuntu LTS (my old OS) as I think for an entry to Linux, it's about the best there is, and then I just got used to it and then I started getting more and more annoyed with Snaps.

FFWD a couple of years and I decided to switch to Mint but I wanted something that was entirely free of Snaps, not just blocked, so LMDE seemed the best fit. I get all the good bits of Mint without the Canonical enforced stuff. It's been running a week now and after plenty of tweaks (installing Gnome for example) looks and feels exactly how I wanted it without interference from Canonical.

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[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably my biggest issue with snaps was that as a student carrying my laptop all day I would notice snapd eating a lot of power and removing the service helped my battery life significantly

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh, okay, thanks. It's constantly running in the background?

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I think it was mostly trying to update or sync every time I sat down and opened the laptop, but on an old machine this was problematic