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    My reaction when I find out Ubuntu is only going to use Snaps (i.imgur.com)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wait is this true? They can’t be replacing apt with snaps all the way… I’ve been using Ubuntu for a decade plus and this would force me to switch

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Thanks for the link. Read the article and it’s just them kicking debs out of the App Store I don’t use anyways. Still a terrible trajectory…

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    If I was into the Ubuntu ecosystem I think I would be on Pop OS mainly to avoid snaps.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah they are, just go debian, it's ubuntu before they went full Hodor.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    Debian also got a lot quicker with updates. They are not as "oldschool" as they've been a few years ago with the packages being always years behind. They still have the Debian way of thinking (tested > on the edge) but it's months and not years of waiting for new updates to be implemented in their official sources

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    They’re not.

    Please read the news before spreading misinformation.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu’s Director of Engineering says the new hub will be a “snap-first app store” designed around snap metadata. If the same piece of software exists in the Ubuntu repository and the snap store the new store will only make it possible to install the snap version.

    https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-23-10-new-app-store-deb-support

    Their plan is to put out more snaps and drown out debs, which is a terrible plan.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Even your link says they’re NOT replacing the apt command with snaps. And yet above you said they were.

    The snaps-only thing is in the store.

    So I say again: they’re NOT turning apt into a snap-only thing. Please read news carefully before spreading fake news.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Try installing Firefox via APT and watch it install a snap package.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

    Still doesn’t mean every apt package is becoming a snap. Firefox is more of an “exception that proves the rule”.

    And since you’re so desperately grasping at straws here, I won’t keep feeding this conversation.