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Dan Gillmor | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Ubuntu update system has become quite the messy process -- a hodgepodge of repositories, snaps, flatpaks, etc. that show up in different places. 

This used to be easier, and that's not something you can say very often about Linux.
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28e74596 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c apt-deb?
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2e3ff970 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c I'm not experiencing too much difficulty. I just use the GUI and zip zap it is done.
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Dan Lyke | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c I am gradually migrating systems back to Debian.
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309b7611 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c Snaps.  And that's why I switched to MX Linux.
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2fbabb5d | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @f8d9bc1c The flatpaks and snaps really chew up disk space, but I guess that's cheap enough now. Ubuntu became too corporate for me, so I went back to Debian. At least with Linux, you have these kind of choices.

There's always the fallback position of OS/2 (now as ArcaOS). ;-)