The weblog It is FOSS is “pissed on the informal vanity of Ubuntu and its dad or mum firm Canonical….. The sheer audacity of not caring for its customers reeks of Microsoft-esque vanity.”
When you obtain a .deb package deal of a software program, you can not set up it utilizing the official graphical software program middle on Ubuntu anymore. If you double-click on the downloaded deb package deal, you may see this error, “there is no such thing as a app put in for Debian package deal recordsdata”.
When you right-click and select to open it with Software program Middle, you’re in for one more annoyance. The software program middle will go into everlasting loading. It might look as whether it is doing one thing, however it’ll go on endlessly. I may even livestream the loading app retailer on YouTube, and it might proceed for the 12 years of its long-term assist interval. Canonical software program engineer Dennis Unfastened really created a difficulty ticket for the issue himself — again in September of 2023. And two weeks in the past he returned to the dialogue to announce that repair “can be a precedence for the subsequent cycle”. (Although “sadly we did not have the capability to work on this for twenty-four.04…)
However Its Foss accused Canonical of “cleverly booting out deb in favor of Snap, one child step at a time” (noting the issue began with Ubuntu 23.10):
There’s additionally the problem of changing deb packages with Snap, even with the apt command line software. You utilize ‘sudo apt set up chromium’, you get a Snap package deal of Chromium as a substitute of Debian The venerable Linux journal argues that Canonical “has secretly pressured Snap set up on customers.”
[I]t seems as if the Software program app defaults to Snap packages for the whole lot now. I combed by numerous apps and located this to be the case…. So far as the auto-installation of downloaded .deb recordsdata, you may have to put in one thing like gdebi to deliver again this function.