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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can change flatpak permissions with flatseal (you'll need to install it). A lot of them have absolutely braindead defaults It's really not great to get in the habit of installing random debs from the Internet. Aside from being a massive security issue, you'll never get updates. If mint repos don't get updated though, I suppose that's the easiest workaround

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up about flatpaks! I'll look into it.

I believe debs are installed through my Software Manager ? When I said "get debs from official source" I meant that bigger software like Godot, Steam, Handbrake etc I prefer to download from their official website. Most stuff in software managers are several versions behind.

I agree that you shouldn't be downloading random debs for some small apps made by a random person, for obvious security reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah when you're downloading from sites like those, there's not a security risk anymore. The thing is that Linux software generally expects you to be using a package manager, so it doesn't update itself. When you download and install debs, you lose auto update functionality. But when you're on a distro like mint with old packages, that doesn't really matter since you're not getting up to date software through the repos anyway