Opera launches as a snap for Linux users

Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by mort96 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:33AM (#17672211)

So your argument is that anyone who wants to use any proprietary software should just switch to Windows?

I suppose I should stop using Linux then, because I occasionally play games from Steam.

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:42AM (#17672299)

And your games are spying on you. Many of these games employ invasive anti-cheat systems which shake down your computer and send a bunch of data to their servers. This shit doesn't fly with distro packages.

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by mort96 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:20PM (#17672685)

Yeah, they definitely wouldn't be in distro packages, but I want to play them nonetheless. That means I either have to run software which isn't in my distro repo, or switch to Windows.

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by JdeBP on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:25PM (#17672733)

Just don't ask about using WINE. (-:

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/460036/

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by mynewtb on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:30PM (#17674122)

You wish! Which distro are you talking about? Can't be Ubuntu for sure...

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by Sir_Cmpwn on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:41PM (#17674230)

Ubuntu is an outlier, not a representative of all of Linux. Linux is open source, you can make a distro that does anything you want, including spying on others. This doesn't make the distros that don't any worse.

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