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Switching from win 11 (feddit.de)

submitted 6 months ago by pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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After convincing my employer to move away from MS office I can finally make the permanent switch away from windows.

I settled on pop_os for now since it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics out of the box and I am a noob.

Two questions:

I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot. What cloud storage provider has the best Linux integration? I dabbled with NeXtCloUD but the Linux client is not great, especially the file on-demand implementation.
What are best practices for managing apps? The last time I entertained the idea of switching, I ended up with applications installed from the snap store, flatpacks, some appimages, some through apt. It quickly gets confusing for me when I want a specific program but it, f.ex., is only distributed through the snap store. Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they're installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

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[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Pop!_OS, you have the Pop!_Shop, and they added their own repos for software aren't included in Ubuntu's repo or exist mainly as Snap packages; they also included Flathub.

Under the app name you want to install, you'll have a little drop-down box with option to choose (if there's more than one option) where to download the package from.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pop!_Shop

That app was slow and laggy for me. I started using app called "Software" and that one is amazing.

I don't know why we have 2 stores preinstalled and what is the difference

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Pop!_Shop is the store made for Pop!OS while Software (full name GNOME Software) was made for every distro that uses GNOME and doesn’t want to make their own store. Pop!OS is moving away from GNOME and developing their own Desktop, so they want to have their own app suite and are still keeping the GNOME apps until there desktop fully releases as backup

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you for explaining this. I was sure its the same thing with different gui, but it all makes sense now

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

System76, makers of Pop!_OS, are making an entirely new desktop environment called COSMIC. The new DE will come with a number of its own apps to replace the GNOME ones, including the App Store.

The new App Store just got an update which apparently addresses your speed concern: https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix