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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:42:20 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > Most of them aren't serious and should actively be avoided lest you be   
   > abandoned by the developers. The more serious ones force changes onto   
   > the user like using Snap or Wayland. In the end, it's no better than   
   > using a proprietary operating system.   
      
   Choose your poison. My Linux Mint laptop is x11 and doesn't use snap. The   
   Fedora and Endeavour boxes are Wayland but use flatpak rather than snaps.   
   I'm not fond of snaps but the Ubuntu box happily chugs along with them.   
      
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