I get it.
I donât love Snaps either.
However, a thing I try to remember and wish others would as well is simply this: Canonical is a company. Their goal is to make money. They are not out to create the ultimate free as in freedom Linux distribution.
This does (to my mind) not make them evil, and ESPECIALLY doesnât make the folks who work there evil. It makes them participants in the great horrible game that is Capitalism, and expecting anything else from them is going to lead to heartache, as youâve seen.
If you want a Linux distro that shares your preferences and wonât try to jam snaps down your throat, you might consider giving Debian a whirl as many others have.
Continuing to ride the Ubuntu train and raging against the dying of the light when it continues chugging in the direction itâs been headed for YEARS seems ⊠futile :)
Money is literally the very incarnation of evil via the Talisman it bears.
If they trying to make money then they are, not a fiber of otherwise, Evil.
Youâre decision to not recognize the blatant & obvious Talisman does not make you correct. Itâs not your choice. Itâs the choice of that occult chant and signature.
Humans are inherently evil. There is but a thin veneer we call âcivilizationâ that stops of from beating each other to death with whatever object can be brought to hand.
And what does any of this have to do with the price of tea in China? :)
Thereâs no way to install a snap except through Canonicalâs snap store (or snap store proxy, which gets them from Canonicalâs snap store).
Theyâre charging for kernel security live patches. They charge for LTS. If they get enough buy-in re: snaps, theyâre going to do the only thing a for-profit company can do.
Red Hat and SUSE also charge for extended support, itâs literally the only fucking way to make money off of a distro
Canonical still offers 5 years standard at the enormous cost of 0.0$
