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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.


That's great!

For some reason I thought it was an incompatible new platform.


Does it support snaps as easily as Ubuntu does?


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.


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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