Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

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[–]filbs111 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This goes mostly over my head currently. Being locked into one store seems like a bad thing for the user.

[–]AlphaPepe 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mint supports PPAs, apt repos, appimages, and flatpaks. With all of those working out of the box. Snaps are an attempt to lock you into Canonical's software. It doesn't support 3rd party repos. They replaced quite a few APT packages with shims that install a snap instead. It might as well be proprietary. If you really want snaps you can re-enable them on Mint.