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    8 months ago

    Then I’ll be on the last deb until it no longer works. I’m not going down the proprietary snap route.

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      8 months ago

      Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE all offer excellent alternatives depending on your reasons for staying.

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        8 months ago

        I am on Debian and Pop. However, if they’re dropping the deb distribution, what does that mean for the non Ubuntu folk? Maybe I’ve misunderstood it all?

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          Ubuntu is (mostly) based on Debian. This is simply a move by Ubuntu to further push their own packaging platform which is effectively proprietary at this time. Debian’s own packaging will remain unchanged.

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            Excellent. Then it doesn’t matter to me at least. Thank you for the reply.

            Still, i don’t trust, nor like the concept of the proprietorial snap system.

            They must be trying to set themselves up to be purchased.