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  • Weird. I had a convo with one who said that protected bike lanes in crowded streets are dangerous as ambulances cannot get through the tight traffic.

    And parallel to that was a fully car-restricted street. As an ambulance driver I would take that, as it is likely free.

    So I think car-free roads are better, but it feels wrong being restricted to smaller roads when using the bike, especially if shops etc are all on bigger roads.


  • Yes but you missed a lot of things of course.

    Linux is free software, unlike MacOS or Windows. That means that the software is given users for free, and they can mostly also change it and redistribute it as their own.

    This is why there are so many varieties of Linux Distributions, as the used software components are often the same, but they are released in different cadences, have different configurations and behaviors, or different focuses (for example Gaming, Server, Workstation, Lightweight, System rescue, hacking, anonymity).

    Free software means that everyone can use it, how they want. Nobody needs to pay, but donations and contributions are crucial. While many big components like the core part “Linux” and others are developed and maintained by bigger corporations (which sell support or systems to mostly enterprise customers), a lot of the Linux software is fully done by people out of love, in their free time.






















  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlUbuntu Snap Hate
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    • proprietary server (snap store), unlike flatpak
    • snapd only allows one server (but it is foss so you could just patch it), unlike flatpak
    • nonexistent security on snap store, multiple times malware, unlike flatpak
    • no sandboxing without apparmor and specific profiles, so not cross platform, unlike flatpak
    • the system apps are also requiring apparmor, so not cross platform
    • they lack granular permission systems afaik
    • they concur with flatpak, which is horrible as we need a universal packaging format, not 3
    • seemingly no reproducible builds?
    • no separation between all, opensource, verified repo, unlike flatpak
    • they pollute the mount list with all the loop devices

    And people complain abour resource usage etc, but that is just separating apps from the system. Flatpak does the same.