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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by ashtonkem on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:04PM (#24385070)
The point of distros like Ubuntu is to avoid having to compile major programs from scratch. If I wanted to compile chromium to get bleeding edge support, why even use Ubuntu?
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by IgorPartola on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:48PM (#24394546)
Exactly. If you don’t care about stuff like that, why do you care about .deb vs snap?
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