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: 5, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:18PM (1 child)
That's OK. People who want systemd should be able to have it. People who don't shouldn't have it forced on them.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @03:23PM
People who want systemd should be committed to an asylum for their own safety.
FTFY