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Installing the inferior snap packages when you apt get is one of the worst cases of a Linux distro refusing to respect the user's intent that I've experienced.


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splatter9859last Monday at 2:49 PM

Preach.

This has got to be the most user-blind self-imposed preference in a modern operating system outside of Microsoft's BS.

If you're going to use an OSS operating system, the control of what is placed on the system should be inherently with the user. If the developer has a question if a new package should be added or is required, throw a prompt and ask -- with a default to not use application containers and the default packaging system.

Really not hard.