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Since everyone is complaining about snap. I have to ask : what is wrong with apt and dpkg ?

I just want that, I guess it means back to Debian?

I’m not excited or interested about spending time dealing with a package manager.

There is nothing wrong with apt and dpkg. It’s just that Ubuntu infected apt with their poison by making ‘apt install firefox’ install a snap package and they’re poised to do it with more packages (maybe they already have).

I personally can’t think of anything software related that Ubuntu provides over Debian for normal desktop users. Only the Ubuntu 6-month release schedule can be a bit nicer.

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