2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.
2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.
If you use apt-get you aren’t using snaps, you are unaffected.
Snap is a format created by Canonical which has a really funky proprietary back end. The default application store in Ubuntu uses this format and has been plagued with an impersonation problem. Since everyone could submit snaps there was a lot of spyware posing as legit software. My main gripe was when the snap store just decided to unilaterally close and update my Firefox while I was using it.
Linux Mint does NOT have snaps and even had a debian based version. Pretty neat
Correct me if I am wrong, but
apt-get install firefoxinstalls the snap version unless you go out of your way to fix that?Yep, it installs the snap version
I believe this is correct. Ubuntu installs the snap package if there is an equivalent package available. So even if you use apt, you still get snaps.
apt uses debians packages and debian repositories. Unless they recently created an alias or something, it should install debian packaged version!
I was under the impression the latest “firefox” package was a kind of “meta” package that caused the snap to get installed instead.
Certainly seems that way according to: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox
Note that 22.04 is described as a transitional package to snap.
Apt does use debian packages (.deb files), but on ubuntu it uses ubuntus repositories.
Even worse than I thought, then :/
They’ve introduced a couple of redirects so that the snap version gets installed.