cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11708298

Hello !

As Mint is based on Ubuntu, I’m wondering if it will follow the missteps (to me at least) Ubuntu is doing to demote *.deb packages in favor of snaps?

Well that based on Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) post, and its lemmy.ml discussion.

From all ubuntu based distros, Mint seems not to follow those missteps, but I’m wondering if Rhino will do the same. Actually I don’t like Rhino created a wrapper package manager which actually gets snap support as well as apt on the same bucket. But who knows, it might be they won’t follow ubuntu on this.

Does anyone know?

My interest on Rhino comes from it being rolling release. But I don’t want snap to become the source of common/important packages.

Thanks !

  • ElsieMEnglish
    2•1 day ago

    Sorry for the incredibly late reply (I’m gonna be on here more often). Snaps are available to use but they are not enabled by default nor encouraged, but are easily installable with one click on our setup app.

    We encourage the use of Debs and pacstall over using anything else such as flatpaks are snaps.