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   Henry Crun to Marco Moock   
   Re: Why snap again?   
   17 May 23 14:08:49   
   
   From: mike@rechtman.com   
      
   On 17/05/2023 13:33, Marco Moock wrote:   
   > Am 14.05.2023 schrieb "Jonathan N. Little" :   
   >   
   >> So why are we defaulting to snap for Firefox?   
   >   
   > Because Canonical wants to force users to snap. Because users don't like   
   > it and don't use it voluntarily, it must be harder for them to avoid it.   
   >   
      
   Well, all it really does is push users to try other distros (in my case   
   mxlinux)   
   which have stuck with no systemd, and therefore no snap.   
      
   Mike   
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