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kevingrahl
on Nov 16, 2018
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Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting rep...
I’ve been using elementary OS for the past two years or so; you can use everything that runs on Ubuntu which of course includes .deb packages.
saganus
on Nov 17, 2018
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That's great!
For some reason I thought it was an incompatible new platform.
jammygit
on Nov 16, 2018
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Does it support snaps as easily as Ubuntu does?
BonesJustice
on Nov 16, 2018
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I’ve never used a snap, but I believe they have a snap manager in the curated section of their App Store, and it looked pretty straightforward.
kevingrahl
on Nov 17, 2018
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Not sure, I’ve only ever used snap to install VLC once to test something and after installing snap via apt all I had to do was:
snap install vlc
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