How to remove all the firefox (and other) cruft in /snap etc.?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 08:53:14 UTC 2024


On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:26:34 +0000, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 16:48, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
>> So, out of interest, what is the difference between (that) Zinc and the
>> XFCE implementation of Linux Mint?
>
>Mint also removes Snap, of course, but it replaces it with Flatpak.
>
>Zinc removes both, adds native support for Appimages, and it offers
>two better native package managers for the command line. The "nala"
>command does all the usual stuff, but faster and easier. The "deb-get"
>command will find 3rd party stuff that's not in the repos and
>install/update it for you.
>
>It's Xubuntu, with a nicer desktop setup, and better .deb package
>management tools with none of the controversial cross-distro package
>stuff.
>

Since it has now disappeared and been replaced by "Asmi 23.10 (Formerly Zinc)"
can one rely on it being available for any sustained time period???


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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