

Yeah, I just liked that bit of the meme. In the prank the meme is based on, they really are the same.
Yeah, I just liked that bit of the meme. In the prank the meme is based on, they really are the same.
Canonical added an epoch prefix to the firefox version number. Because that epoch (1) is higher than the implicit default (0), the official ubuntu dummy package is always considered to be a higher version than the official Mozilla package. apt doesn’t look at snap packages, it installs the deb, but the ubuntu deb just runs snap install firefox
and basically nothing else.
w3m
is a proper deb 😛
Looks like only firefox, chromium-browser and thunderbird are these dummy transitional packages. There’s a fwupd-snap
, but the default fwupd
is a full deb.
Yup, apt install chromium-browser
calls snap install chromium
. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There’s a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default.
Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I’m not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.
So both commands do the same thing… right? I’m not saying snap and apt are the same in general.
In Ubuntu they are the same. firefox
version 1:1snap1-0ubuntu5
is a deb that literally runs the command snap install firefox
in the preinst script. Check line 77 in firefox-1snap1/debian/firefox.preinst
in the source tarball: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/1:1snap1-0ubuntu5
There’s no magic there.
I think ICQ, AIM and MSN messenger are all dead now. WhatsApp works on Matrix via a bridge. Not sure about other platforms.
Kanata is an alternative (like KMonad) that I’ve heard good things about.
I just use qmk on my split keyboard.
Or even zcat -f /usr/bin/zcat
-f --force
If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given,
copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.
I don’t know why this isn’t the top comment. I guess there might be some scenario where you’d want to know about non-gzip files where you don’t expect them so changing the defaults would probably cause some subtle breakage. For shell use though, just an alias could be used; alias zcat=gzip -cdf
Have you tried sfc /scannow
?
It’s Cannonical. They prefer implementing everything themselves fast, rather than developing a more sustainable project with the rest of the community over a longer timescale. When they do that, there will be very little buy-in from the wider community.
Others could technically implement another snap store for their own distro, but they’d have to build a lot of the backend that Cannonical didn’t release. It’s easier to use Flatpak or AppImage or whatever rather than hitch themselves onto Cannonicals’s homegrown solution that might get abandoned down the line like Mir or Ubuntu Touch.
It’s Cannonical. They prefer implementing everything themselves fast, rather than developing a more sustainable project with the rest of the community over a longer timescale. It makes sense that when they do that, there will be very little buy-in from the wider community. Much like Unity and Mir.
As you say - why would others put time into the less supported system? Better alternatives exist. If Canonical want their own software ecosystem, they’ll have to maintain it themselves. Which, based on Mir and Ubuntu Touch, they don’t have a good track record of.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It makes perfect sense that Cannonical made it’s own proprietary package ecosystem and while technically anyone can build their own snap store, ain’t nobody got time for that.
curl shit | sudo bash
is just so convenient.
Yeah, I really dislike snap and have puppet clean it out and add in the real mozilla repo for me. If I wanted sandboxed apps I’d probably look at flatpak but I think there’s still work to be done there also.