curl command returns nothing when installing brave browser on ubuntu20.04

[AkIonSight]

Many Apps ship as AppImages, a few i can remember from the top of my mind include BalenaEtcher and Obsidian

[mrchow19910319]

9 minutes ago, AkIonSight said:

Many Apps ship as AppImages, a few i can remember from the top of my mind include BalenaEtcher and Obsidian

yeah, the app I am using right now is in AppImages format as well. V2ray-Desktop 

 

https://github.com/Dr-Incognito/V2Ray-Desktop

[flindeberg]

1 hour ago, 10leej said:

snaps are open source though......

snapd != snaps (plural of snap)

 

You can put whichever binary you like in a snap. It’s a squashfs file system with some metadata.

 

Snaps are convenient, but they are quite opaque and can get your system in quite a mess of dependencies, because usually you need a proper package manager as well.

 

However, this is far outside the scope of this thread.

[mrchow19910319]

7 hours ago, flindeberg said:

snapd != snaps (plural of snap)

 

You can put whichever binary you like in a snap. It’s a squashfs file system with some metadata.

 

Snaps are convenient, but they are quite opaque and can get your system in quite a mess of dependencies, because usually you need a proper package manager as well.

 

However, this is far outside the scope of this thread.

if I dont want to use snap, which distro should I choose?? 

[flindeberg]

6 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

if I dont want to use snap, which distro should I choose?? 

My recommendation would be something arch-based since the AUR will help you with packages and programs which end up in snaps on other distros.

 

 In practice this means Manjaro or Garuda, and perhaps Manjaro KDE being the best choice if you want to game down the line now that Valve officially has said that Manjaro KDE is the closest current distribution to Steam OS 3.0.

[Alexeygridnev1993]

6 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

if I dont want to use snap, which distro should I choose?? 

Linux Mint creators lately removed snaps too.