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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    1 year ago

    Every *buntu has been forced to comply, they took longer but now they are all aligned in this “Snap-it-all, don’t support Flatpak” approach.

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      1 year ago

      Define “forced to comply”. I understand Canonical can do anything with Ubuntu, which is why this random forced snap install happened.

      But do they have similar authority over the rest of the bunch?

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        1 year ago

        KDE neon is your place. Or Debian with KDE, or Fedora KDE, or Arch with KDE…

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            1 year ago

            Your choice of desktop environment is totally independent from your choice of distribution. You can always change it to what you prefer.

            I bet you could even run KDE Neon (KDE’s own distribution) with Gnome if you wanted to.

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              Wow, always something new to discover. I didn’t know KDE had their own distribution! I’ll check that out. Cheers.