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They're also obsessed with pushing Snaps down the user's throat these days. The height of their attitude happened when they made firefox available ONLY as a Snap package and took it out of Ubuntu APT repository entirely! That's when I decided to bid them farewell and test out Debian and Mint which are still untainted by Snaps/Flatpaks.

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That's Canonical's problem.

The creators and maintainers of Ubuntu

Fork it, or use somebody else’s fork. And wasn’t that years ago? Didn’t they stop?

There’s a bunch of Ubuntu forks, I think.

OP just mentioned Ubuntu specifically when making a case for software that respects privacy