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

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, @10:27PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:27PM (#1018855) Homepage Journal

    In order to be able to use roll20 without installing the native roll20 app, which does not appear to exist.

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