Hmm, this doesn’t make sense. You simply don’t replace utilities with many decades of maturity and that “just work” with something that is not as mature. It will open all users of the distro to all sorts of subtle and not so subtle bugs. I for one don’t want to find myself staring at a mysterious segfault when I want to build the latest version of nodejs or flash a microcontroller. It’s such a pity; I have used Ubuntu for close to 23 years.

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someothherguyy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

then install the other tool. no one is holding a gun to your head. it isn't windows.

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nairboon an hour ago | parent [-]

Like how one can easily not use snap on Ubuntu? /s

	▲	someothherguyy 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		i mean, i use ubuntu on multiple personal devices that i use daily and like <1% of the packages installed are managed with snap, and to me, it isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. the point i was trying to make was that it is much harder to replace things like .net / powershell in windows for simple cli workflows. in linux, you can just drop the executable you want to use in your path. so, gnu coreutils will build on pretty much anything you need them to, and are very stable. it is <5m of effort to build it and swap the executable / lib in your path. also, as mentioned here, ubuntu will allow you to select which package you want to install from the normal repos, so you don't even need to do that.