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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released (releases.ubuntu.com)

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[–] zippy@lemmy.zip 14 points 23 hours ago

Its sad that Ubuntu fell off due to their weird snaps push. I was okay with just ignoring snaps until Ubuntu decided it would be cool to install the snap package if its available, when the user explicitly requested the apt version. Like if you do sudo apt install firefox it installs the snap, which is a huge download and really caught me off guard the first time it happened. These kind of dark patterns were the whole reason I moved from Windows (I ve been using Linux since before Copilot).

This is on top of the snap store being essentially proprietary and, in my opinion, generally worse than flatpaks.