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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Now you just need to remove snaps. And then when Canonical still forces them on you, you move to Linux Mint, but then Linux mint won't be updated as often as you'd like. So then you move to Arch. Then you'll really be one of us

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isn't that the least updated of the above choices? (if you run stable)

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Debian testing is the way (perhaps haven't tried it but I'm intrigued to know the experience) 🤔

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

I'm just getting in on the fun.

Everyone should run Kali. 🤪

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Well don't the testing versions like Debian Sid get updates regularly enough ?

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