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[–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I've been daily driving Kubuntu LTS for 3 years now completely snap-free due to --minimal-install, and use Waterfox, a Firefox fork that doesn't use snapd as far as I can see. snap-free *buntu is alive and well. It doesn't take much effort.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    but why

    seriously. now you basically don't have access to a large number of packages. sure, waterfox is a good alternative to firefox. but say you do want to install firefox (or any other package that canonical distributes only as a snap), what do you do?

    I get that it's possible to run Kubuntu, or even stock Ubuntu, without snap. that's the beauty of an open OS, you can do whatever you want with it. I just don't get why you would want to run a distro that is actively pushing a standard on you that you don't want

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    but why

    To explicitly piss off the distro purists and cultists.

    JkπŸ˜…

    Really, it's because sometimes I like to run my experimental DNN applications on bare metal, and many of those containers use an Ubuntu base.

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