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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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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?
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".
It sounds like that's just part of the game if you want to be considered "official".
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors
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.