It will be easier to manage the classic Debian packages in the Snap/App Center in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

For years, many Ubuntu users have felt that traditional .deb packages were being gradually sidelined in favor of the Snap ecosystem.

It started quietly. Double-clicking a downloaded .deb file would open it in Archive Manager instead of the installer. Then came controversial changes. Apps like Chromium, Thunderbolt and Firefox began defaulting to Snap packages, even when users tried installing them via the apt command in the terminal.

It continued further as Ubuntu introduced its new Snap Store. In Ubuntu 24.04, it ignored .deb packages completely. Double-clicking a .deb file would open the App Center, but wouldn’t actually install the package and just hang there. That behavior was later reverted after I highlighted it through It’s FOSS.

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Kubuntu uses Discover instead of the Ubuntu App Center

    It’s really easy to avoid Snaps

    • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      It’s also really easy to avoid the company that made the slow, proprietary, corporate-owned Snaps default as a slap-in-face to the open-source community they depend on.