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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Lol, I'd rather have AUR malware than Snap packages. You do you, friend. All the arch based distros are fine, only the AUR is affected, so unless someone goes out of their way to use the AUR they're golden.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I partially chose Linux Mint to skip the whole snap nonsense. I seriously don't get how it's been so accepted in various distros.

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

For the casual user, they Just Work™. The famous ones like Stean, at least (I tried it sometime ago, it's better than the flatpak version nowadays). If you never change your cursor, never check out your partitions, etc. snap's problems aren't as visible

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can’t we all just… get along?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kubuntu minimal install doesn't have snaps.

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Until you install Firefox, that is.

You can still override it to install the apt package, same with thunderbird.