Linux reviews notes that
The popular Linux Mint operating system has decided to purge the snap package manager from its repositories and forbid installation of it. The motivation for this drastic move is that the upstream Ubuntu Linux distribution Linux Mint is based on will stealthily install snapd and use that to install Chromium from the Canonical-controlled SnapCraft instead of installing a regular Chromium package like most users expect.
The Linux Mint blog has this to say about Ubuntu's use of snap to use their chromium package to subvert apt:
You've as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.
Is Ubuntu turning evil?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:38PM (3 children)
The Night of systemd! -- Coming Soon on VHS !
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:54PM (2 children)
So that would be a porno of Debian maintainers blowing Pottering then?
(Score: 2) by TheReaperD on Friday July 10 2020, @12:02AM (1 child)
With an elephant, a kazoo, and a tuning fork in Linus' office.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday July 11 2020, @02:52PM
I love the part where Poettering lets loose a gallon of wet diarrhea, with the kazoo squeaking and warbling while lodged in his asshole the whole time.
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