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After a Long Time, Ubuntu Shows Some Respect to Deb Packages (itsfoss.com)
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For years, many Ubuntu users have felt that traditional .deb packages were being gradually sidelined in favor of the Snap ecosystem.

It started quietly. Double-clicking a downloaded .deb file would open it in Archive Manager instead of the installer. Then came controversial changes. Apps like Chromium, Thunderbolt and Firefox began defaulting to Snap packages, even when users tried installing them via the apt command in the terminal.

It continued further as Ubuntu introduced its new Snap Store. In Ubuntu 24.04, it ignored .deb packages completely. Double-clicking a .deb file would open the App Center, but wouldn’t actually install the package and just hang there. That behavior was later reverted after I highlighted it through It's FOSS.

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[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

Snaps have been utterly stupid. Their sandboxing means my editor apps can’t open the files in my media drive by default. It’s a file editor for fuck’s sake, it needs to be able to access my files.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I like to post issues like that in the bug tracker with concise phrasing like “Why can't the file editor edit files?” Give them nothing to think that you actually know the answer, make them spell it out.

[-] entwine@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah waste open source maintainers' time by acting like a child. That will surely accomplish whatever you're hoping to accomplish.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, it's certainly not the maintainers wasting time by peddling the snap bullshit that doesn't work, without thinking beforehand.

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