It isn’t a “proprietary back end” it is what Stallman calls Service as a Software Substitute. (SaaSS) It wouldn’t matter if they claimed it was completely foss. You are still using a foreign service you don’t control.
With a package manager that is sort of unavoidable though. In the case of snaps you could always modify the source to have a different repo. The real reason not to use snaps is all the other issues.
It is a old code sir but it still checks out
WSL is cool when you first use it then you realize it actually kind of sucks
I have no idea if that’s true but I believe it
WTF?
Time to go commit a crime in Norway
Not a proprietary blob unless you install proprietary software
There is also a new community fork to get rid of the blobs and bad cert loading. The ventroy dev has made a bunch of concerning choices so some people hard forked the code. I forgot where is was though.
Just be like a normal person and use the Cloud or Windows Server
I’ll let myself out
Arch isn’t necessarily hard. It just is unstable plus it encourages dated ways of doing things.
Autism intensifies
They want you to quit