removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 21:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 19:30 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Montag, dem 03.04.2023 um 12:28 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:
> > > 
> > > > and the transitional firefox deb is the only way to please both
> > > > worlds on a technical level ...
> > > 
> > > And isn't installed by default in Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, which is why I'm
> > > not convinced he knew any of this.
> > 
> > he's not the desktop team (snaps have a pretty large developer base in-
> > house at canonical, that team operates completely stand-alone, not tied
> > to server or desktop) :) and this is clearly a bug that was not
> > forwarded to the snapd team, it definitely *should* be installed by
> > default (and it is for everyone that upgraded from a former release,
> > seemingy it is not seeded on the isos though, which is discussed in the
> > duplicate bug i linked elsewhere in the thread, and a desktop team
> > member actually marked the bug as high prio there already)
> 
> Don't replace deb by snap, just drop snaps and provide all common web
> browsers by official deb repositories. Make a meta package that depends
> on browser foo || bar || foo_bar || and so on as e.g.

Don't include something related to Windows! Users install Ubuntu to use
Linux, not to run something on Windows. If you like provide a Windows
port of Ubuntu, but don't mix it with the Linux ports.

> https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/jackd does for different versions of
> this audio server. You are free to install either jackd1 or jackd2 to
> fulfil hard dependencies against jackd.
> 
> There's only one thing you need to do. Cancel the original mistake to
> introduce snaps. Go back to plain deb packages and you are done, no
> workarounds or "bug fixes" are required, by just dropping this idiotic
> idea that does cause that many issues to no avail at all. Migrating from
> deb to snap does not reduce CO2 emissions or similar. It's not a such
> alike invention that justify annoyances to gain something good. No, it's
> just plain crap, good for nothing. All those excuses are boring!