I just tried to upgrade Ubuntu and I suddenly see that new packages want to be installed; snapd and firefox. I don’t need Firefox because I’m already using Firefox-ESR as a deb and I certainly don’t need snaps.
Why is Ubuntu doing this? I get it you like snaps but I don’t, so don’t try to force install it. I had to use apt-mark hold to block the install of snapd and firefox. This is also not an isolated incident. I just checked Reddit and someone made a thread 8 hours back regarding the same issue.
This thing is giving me Microsoft vibes.
Does anyone know if Kubuntu does the same with snaps?
Every *buntu has been forced to comply, they took longer but now they are all aligned in this “Snap-it-all, don’t support Flatpak” approach.
Define “forced to comply”. I understand Canonical can do anything with Ubuntu, which is why this random forced snap install happened.
But do they have similar authority over the rest of the bunch?
It sounds like that’s just part of the game if you want to be considered “official”.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors
As per this article, it seems like Canonical finally had to specifically enforce it on the remixes, and required them to comply with the “new rules”.
Ah too bad… I liked KDE.
KDE neon is your place. Or Debian with KDE, or Fedora KDE, or Arch with KDE…
Didn’t know about them, thank you for the heads-up.
Your choice of desktop environment is totally independent from your choice of distribution. You can always change it to what you prefer.
I bet you could even run KDE Neon (KDE’s own distribution) with Gnome if you wanted to.
Wow, always something new to discover. I didn’t know KDE had their own distribution! I’ll check that out. Cheers.