I spent a year with Ubuntu MATE after over a decade of macOS use. The thing I missed the most was the hassle free installation of packages via brew. This made me very happy. I hope it will work as friction free as brew on macOS.
I don't know Ubuntu MATE specifically, and it's been a long time since I used Linux on the desktop, but I'm surprised that "apt install foo" has more friction than "brew install foo". Both work very nicely in my experience.
A lot of software that I use weren't available via APT so I had to go hunting via snap, flatpak and pip. Suddenly I had four different package managers to maintain and update. Every time I updated Ubuntu it was a mess to update where what repositories to update to. I was never successful in keeping my software up to date without a lot of googling and problem solving and it sucked.
> Like almost all articles criticising Facebook, this has a prominent 'like on Facebook' icon/link.
The "voting with your wallet" logic doesn't work very well with operations at the size and impact of Facebook. Zeit may be dependent on Facebook for profit. That's why some people ask for regulations. Companies should not be expected to act as moral agents.
You should also know that journalists writing for a paper has little to do with business strategies of the owners.
