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   Jonathan N. Little to Marco Moock   
   Re: Why I switched to Debian - Ubuntu go   
   26 Dec 22 16:52:16   
   
   From: lws4art@gmail.com   
      
   Marco Moock wrote:   
   > Am 25.12.2022 um 21:59:13 Uhr schrieb stepore:   
   >   
   >> On 12/25/22 10:17, bad sector wrote:   
   >>> My UbuntuStudio install is on death-row also, one of   
   >>> the reasons being mandatory snaps, the other reason is   
   >>   
   >> I hate snaps as much as the next guy, but snaps are _not_ mandatory.   
   >> Hell, you can even remove the entire snap underpinnings.   
   >   
   > True, but packages like chromium or firefox aren't available via apt   
   > anymore and there is no real reason for that.   
   > I assume Canonical wants to make users use snap.   
   >   
      
   We that this not technically true. Running 22.04 with deb version for   
   firefox. I also uninstalled snapd and snap-store. If you do not want to   
   modify then there is always another distro to suit.   
      
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