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Is Mint following Ubuntu demoting debs as Ubuntu is? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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Hello !

As Mint is based on Ubuntu, I'm wondering if it will follow the missteps (to me at least) Ubuntu is doing to demote *.deb packages in favor of snaps?

Well that based on Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) post, and its lemmy.ml discussion.

Thanks !

Edit: Responses indicate, at least so far, Mint is not following Ubuntu's decisions regarding snap. Thanks to all who responded !

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[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Linux Mint team actually compiles Chromium themself for their distro editions, I suspect they will do this for Firefox too in the future (since Canonical only provide these as Snaps)
But compiling web browser takes a huge toll on hardware, so I recommend anyone donating if you wish for them to handle the server cost so the Linux Mint team can handle the slack of Canonical

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot ! Hopefully it'll remain the same. And if there are more news about it, particularly from Mint itself, please share, :)