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 !

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think so, Mint have generally been pretty good about avoiding some of Canonical’s sillier decisions, and as of 2020 snap is disabled in Mint by default. (I assume it still is, if not I’m sure someone will correct me.) They also seem to be pretty critical of the direction snaps are taking in general:

    as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to continue to use Chromium and installs itself behind your back. This breaks one of the major worries many people had when Snap was announced and a promise from its developers that it would never replace APT.

    A self-installing Snap Store which overwrites part of our APT package base is a complete NO NO. It’s something we have to stop and it could mean the end of Chromium updates and access to the snap store in Linux Mint.

    • kixik@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      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, :)

  • EddyBot@feddit.de
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.mlOP
      1·
      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, :)

  • iamthatis@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Long term I think it’s a good idea for the Mint team to fully shift over to their Debian base as the main variant of Mint