From: mike@rechtman.com   
      
   On 26/12/2022 23:52, Jonathan N. Little wrote:   
   > 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   
   for90.0.4430.212   
   > firefox. I also uninstalled snapd and snap-store. If you do not want to   
   > modify then there is always another distro to suit.   
   >   
      
   On my main-use, desktop, running Ubuntu 20.04 without snaps, but with both   
   Firefox (v108.0.1) and Chromium   
   (v90.0.4430.212) installed by apt. Google/Duckduck/whatever are your friends.   
   So it is possible, and not difficult. Unfortunately still forces me to keep   
   systemd.   
   OTOH on my stand-by PC and on my laptop, switched to MX linux: No systemd, no   
   snap, and a really useful backup image   
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