• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ubuntu’s Director of Engineering says the new hub will be a “snap-first app store” designed around snap metadata. If the same piece of software exists in the Ubuntu repository and the snap store the new store will only make it possible to install the snap version.

    https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-23-10-new-app-store-deb-support

    Their plan is to put out more snaps and drown out debs, which is a terrible plan.

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      1 year ago

      Even your link says they’re NOT replacing the apt command with snaps. And yet above you said they were.

      The snaps-only thing is in the store.

      So I say again: they’re NOT turning apt into a snap-only thing. Please read news carefully before spreading fake news.

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          1 year ago

          Still doesn’t mean every apt package is becoming a snap. Firefox is more of an “exception that proves the rule”.

          And since you’re so desperately grasping at straws here, I won’t keep feeding this conversation.