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14 days agoA software fork doesn’t automatically say that things are being added on top. It’s less so an add-on and more so a mod, and Ubuntu being OSS means the Mint devs could just dig in and pull out whatever nasty things people don’t like. Snaps are a good example: sudo apt install firefox on Ubuntu started installing the Firefox Snap somewhere before 2022 (I don’t recall exactly), but Linux Mint has never had Snap support by default, and has been installing the Debian package of Firefox (Like Ubuntu used to) for a long time, and will probably continue to do so
Sorry for the late response
They have their use cases, but personally I don’t like the hard sandbox they have (makes theming impossible) and they take up a lot of disk space, which I already seem to be constantly running out of without Snaps already so it’s a big no from me