I just tried to upgrade Ubuntu and I suddenly see that new packages want to be installed; snapd and firefox. I don’t need Firefox because I’m already using Firefox-ESR as a deb and I certainly don’t need snaps.

Why is Ubuntu doing this? I get it you like snaps but I don’t, so don’t try to force install it. I had to use apt-mark hold to block the install of snapd and firefox. This is also not an isolated incident. I just checked Reddit and someone made a thread 8 hours back regarding the same issue.

This thing is giving me Microsoft vibes.

      • Björn Tantau@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • stravanasu@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Wow, always something new to discover. I didn’t know KDE had their own distribution! I’ll check that out. Cheers.