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Snap Removed from Mint

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 09 2020, @06:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the working-behind-your-back dept.

hendrikboom writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:24PM (3 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:24PM (#1018853) Homepage Journal

    In order to be able to use Zoom without installing the native Zoom app, which might do who knows what.

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  • (Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday July 10 2020, @12:02AM

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Friday July 10 2020, @12:02AM (#1018893)

    In order to be able to use Zoom without installing the native Zoom app, which might do who knows what.

    and the Chromium from the Canonical controlled source might also be doing who knows what.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @08:17AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @08:17AM (#1018987)

    Running Zoom app which does who knows what, vs. running Chromium which does who knows what...

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday July 10 2020, @02:42PM

      by Freeman (732) on Friday July 10 2020, @02:42PM (#1019076) Journal

      Flip the coin, you're probably just as bad off either way, but if you're going to be using Zoom anyway. You might as well use their app as opposed to introducing a proven bad actor. Since, Google is syphoning every shred of data they can.

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