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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ljm on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:21AM (#24384205)
I was settling up WSL2 the other day and needed Chrome so I could run it headless for some E2E tests I had going. It took a lot of messing about to get a copy of it that didn't use Snap. Partly because apt has always worked great for me and I didn't want to switch with something else, but also because it required systemd to run it as a daemon?

That they clobbered the apt install just to push Snap forward left a bad taste in my mouth.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ripdog on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:20PM (#24385208)
It's worth noting that you can use Arch and various other distros on wsl[2], not just Ubuntu.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by sergeykish on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:59PM (#24386012)
It is not official, like with AUR check sources

http://archlinux.2023198.n4.nabble.com/Windows-Subsystem-Lin...

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by voxic11 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:17AM (#24389876)
You can officially use any official image on WSL2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-di...
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by philliphaydon on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:20AM (#24389401)
I don’t understand why it’s so hard. It’s literally visit chrome website and download the deb file and install...
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