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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: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 10 2020, @12:42AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday July 10 2020, @12:42AM (#1018907) Journal

    Ubuntu *has been* evil since it started the coffee-shop motif. The word "ubuntu" itself has been badly misappropriated by the project, as the idea behind it ("Linux for human beings," meaning pretty much *everyone*) has long since been left in the dust. It's sickening to watch.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @02:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @02:39AM (#1018935)

    I don't agree with the troll mod here. Ubuntu changed their whole desktop in a minor version update. I ran it then and it totally fucked my machine up with no warning, and there was no rollback mechanism. I wouldn't spare a squirt of piss if they burst into flames.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 10 2020, @01:10PM

    by VLM (445) on Friday July 10 2020, @01:10PM (#1019043)

    I'm please to see we're both professional enough to occasionally agree on things.

    The real Ubuntu problem fundamentally is their definition of "human beings" is defined and controlled by marketing people who've never actually used a computer or sysadmin'd anything and don't intend to in the future. They love signalling about how great they are at demonstrating an amazing amount of effort to own markets that don't exist to satisfy people who don't exist. If only they were actually focused on real users ...