• Null@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    This news shouldn’t be a shock to anyone. Ubuntu is just doing what they’ve been doing all along, and that is trying to push they’re snap packages.

    As long as distros give people the option/ability to install in other ways I don’t see a problem. Now if Ubuntu out right banned any other way to install apps that would be big news.

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      9 months ago

      If you try and use apt to install Firefox, it secretly uses snap anyway. Shit like that is a problem

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        9 months ago

        good news is ubuntu is pushing me to flatpaks, those still work

    • Leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showOPM
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t see much wrong with it as long as it works as well as any other installation option and stays maintained.

      Interesting thought about banning other installation methods. I can’t think of how they’d actually do any of that besides going fully immutable. 🤔