• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    but why

    seriously. now you basically don’t have access to a large number of packages. sure, waterfox is a good alternative to firefox. but say you do want to install firefox (or any other package that canonical distributes only as a snap), what do you do?

    I get that it’s possible to run Kubuntu, or even stock Ubuntu, without snap. that’s the beauty of an open OS, you can do whatever you want with it. I just don’t get why you would want to run a distro that is actively pushing a standard on you that you don’t want

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      19 hours ago

      but why

      To explicitly piss off the distro purists and cultists.

      Jk😅

      Really, it’s because sometimes I like to run my experimental DNN applications on bare metal, and many of those use containers have an Ubuntu base.