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I just tried to upgrade Ubuntu and I suddenly see that new packages want to be installed; snapd and firefox. I don't need Firefox because I'm already using Firefox-ESR as a deb and I certainly don't need snaps.

Why is Ubuntu doing this? I get it you like snaps but I don't, so don't try to force install it. I had to use apt-mark hold to block the install of snapd and firefox. This is also not an isolated incident. I just checked Reddit and someone made a thread 8 hours back regarding the same issue.

This thing is giving me Microsoft vibes.

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[–] Mount_Linux@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hearing and feeling the bad vibes towards Ubuntu, but they've not done anything to totally ruffle my feathers just yet. I went full Ubuntu with about 10 servers and 2 desktops. I don't mind snaps, but my senses are heightened after the red hat shebackle, so considered a next move in case Ubuntu disappoints me with these enterprise decisions. I'm happy to accept an immutable distro like they have planned, but with snaps being proprietary what would that make the distro? Hmm. Do I need to reconsider snaps?

I heard canonical took lxd in house, however I thought it was canonical anyway, and i use lxd a lot, so I'm concerned there's a play they are going to make.. If the red hat thing never happened, I'd probably not have had much concern, but... Red hat thing did happen, and so did reddit. Anyway, hopefully it's just a little paranoia from recent events. 😬

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