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Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
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Except doesn't ubumtu now force a snap on you even if you try installing a package app?
The solution is to use any of the other hundreds of readily available distributions.
Exactly. I dont have flatpak or snap integration installed so packages are packages. I think it was Ubuntu being delivered with snap as part of the OS. As well as CLI ads.
I'm confused by this. If I run apt install, am I getting stuff from flatpak?
Yes and no, you're getting stuff form Snap, not flatpak
Even when I'm running apt directly? That seems insane.
Yep, that's why some people are so upset about it. I guess there's a config to disable it but I wouldn't know, I use Arch btw
You have to check your distros info, but from popular Linux podcasts they were claiming certain distros used the apt get but once the package manager saw what you want it would throw in a snap or flatpak of the same. Not all distros. I think Ubuntu was one.
Yes. Some packages are just meta packages for their snap versions.