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Can someone ELI5 the situation with Red Hat and CentOS? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been hearing about it a lot over the last few days, but I don't exactly understand what's going on. What's going on with Red Hat, and how does it affect Linux users?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Been using Ubuntu Server

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's what I use, but I've been thinking of switching to Fedora due to Canonical's insistance on snaps. Snaps just seem to give me trouble.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I typed sudo apt install firefox, pressed Y and ended up with snap firefox, I decided to stop using ubuntu and start hating canonical.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom 1 points 2 years ago

100%! My wife kept having problems and it took us forever to figure out Ubuntu was installing snaps. She's on Arch now BTW 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Snaps are a nightmare. I've been using a VNC based remote setup for ages for our online training. In the latest ubuntu LTS there's a bug where applications installed via snaps don't trigger the appropriate cgroup permissions when running under VNC so you can't launch any of those applications. The bug is reported, verified and well described but no one from Canonical seems to be interested in applying a fix. I've ended up having to install a browser from the main Firefox site because I literally can't get the snap installed version to run any more.