Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.

Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.

I still don’t really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅

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    Snaps are bad for two reasons:

    1. The backend is proprietary & the client doesn’t support other backends without modifying the source code
    2. For some packages, doing apt install installs the Snap instead

    There’s no good reason for either. Canonical is simply setting things up so they can squeeze money out of their users by enshittifying over time.