They have been doing this for a while.
Would recommend you to stick to MX,Mint or if you care only about stability and not Updates debian.
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Yeah they've been doing that for a while
I suggest Mint or straight Debian. I prefer Mint for anything graphical, Debian for headless
Why use Mint when Mx exists.
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Have you correctly set your apt preferences? I didn't have any issues anymore since I've done that.
I'm sure that I've set the apt preferences according to Mozilla's article. I'll have to wait and see until a new update arrives to Firefox.
Not a secret, but annoying as hell. I usually replace it with a Flatpak and uninstall Snap.
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They started doing that in a couple of years back. Saw quite a bit of backlash in the Linux news media at the time.
That snap shit was so bad it made me switch to Arch.
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Welcome to 2020, where Debian is once again your trusted distro.
Always was.
It is one of the reasons many people turn away from Ubuntu.
Yes. That was the last straw for me. I switched to debian stable, and haven't looked back since
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Not secretly, no.
But it's not obvious either. When I say 'apt install firefox', specially after adding their repository to sources.list, I'd expect to get a .deb from mozilla. Silently overriding my commands rubs me in a very wrong way.
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Definitely not you, they absolutely do this with snaps and have for a while. This was the main reason I stopped using Ubuntu.
I battled that for about a year and then ditched Debian based diatros altogether.
OpenSUSE ftw
You could have gone pure Debian. There are no snap shenanigans over there :)
OpenSuse is also a great pick tho!
Yup. They also did this with Docker, and it broke my setup (and was a bitch to debug).
This was a couple of years ago, and I haven't used Ubuntu unless absolutely necessary (and then usually in a container).
This is why i switched to Debian. It's 99% of Ubuntu, without the crap.
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At this point, why is anyone using Ubuntu for desktop? You have soooo many options
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Jesus Christ this is Windows-tier insane computing behaviour from Ubuntu. Fuck Ubuntu.
I've had it happen too. In fact it is what prompted me to move away from Kubuntu.
Wasn’t that one of the main critiques of snap/ubuntu/canonical a few years ago already?
Among my personal dislike for its shade of purple, that has been my primary reason to not recommend ubuntu for a while, at least.
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Switch to Debian and you'll be fine :)
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