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▲ dlachausse a day ago

Why run Ubuntu if feel so strongly about snap? There are so many other distros that don’t use it.

▲goosedragons a day ago | parent [-]

Besides snaps it has a good mix of things. I am more familiar with apt, it tends to have better hardware support than it's peers, makes it easy to run proprietary codecs or drivers, has a lot of packages and repos.

I recently switched to Debian to get away from Ubuntu CONSTANTLY forcing the Firefox snap over the Deb I purposefully installed. It's fine but I keep running into little things like the kernel being too old for my GPU, missing codecs for Zoom, etc. It's a little irritating in that regard. I guess I could have picked Mint but it still had an older kernel so even then it wouldn't have been trouble free.

I would still be on Ubuntu if it just respected Firefox being a Deb. I tried many guides and times to get it to not use the snap and nothing worked on 24.04 so I gave up. I wouldn't even care if the snap version at least operated the same as the deb version.

▲cyberbanjo a day ago | parent | next [-]

  install_firefox() {
      source /etc/os-release
      printf "Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=\*
  Pin-Priority: -10" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
      sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mozillateam/ppa
      sudo apt update -y
      sudo apt install -y -t 'o=LP-PPA-mozillateam' firefox
      printf "%s" "Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: \"LP-PPA-mozillateam:${UBUNTU_CODENAME}\";" | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox
      printf "Package: firefox\*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
  Pin-Priority: 501" | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa
  }

  remove_snaps() {
      sudo snap remove --purge firefox
      sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
      sudo snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
      sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
      sudo snap remove --purge bare
      sudo snap remove --purge core20
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd
      sudo apt remove --autoremove snapd -y
  
      cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
  # To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,
  # this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
  # For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
  
  Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=*
  Pin-Priority: -10
  EOF
      sudo umount /var/snap
  }
▲dlachausse a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not use Linux Mint? It’s Ubuntu with additional polish and no snaps.