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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Awesome! Thank you for this explanation. So it’s mostly just because it’s a redundancy and specific to a certain distro (Ubuntu in this case)?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Specific to Ubuntu, not very open for collaboration, and operated by the company who owns the Ubuntu trademarks. Additionally they've made it unnecessarily difficult to install non-snap versions of many popular packages. (they removed non-snap versions from upstream Debian repositories).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, redundancy is fine. It’s the proprietary backend and Ubuntu forcing it on users that people don’t like.