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Installing offline, just to remove the phone-home-script and then go online..
by hoyd 7y ago
Installing offline, just to remove the phone-home-script and then go online..
- Skunkleton 7y agoThis really shouldn't be required. If you are going to build-in anti-features, at least make sure that there aren't equivalent alternatives to your product. Ubuntu lost me when they started bundling all of the Amazon crap.
- m463 7y ago> remove the phone-home-script This implies there is one script. However, ubuntu is full of crap. the privacy panel, snapd, amazon, lots more. The fixubuntu.com site has disappeared. I switched to arch linux. one amazing difference - launch gnome on arch and it comes up in a second. On ubuntu there is so much bloat.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoWhat’s the alternative to snap in arch?
- chmod775 7y agopacman and the AUR or Appimage? Throw in firejail if you want sandboxing. I have yet to find a piece of software that was only available as a snap package. Also snapd is available from the AUR.
- johnisgood 7y agoUnfortunately I did find such a piece of software. Is there a way to get the direct download link to a snap? Perhaps a manual way of downloading and installing a snap, that would suffice. I ran into issues (version incompatibility which in itself is not a problem, snap made it a problem) and they made me give up on installing a product that was available ONLY as a snap. They (some company) used to release their crapware as .deb and .rpm before which was extremely easy to extract and use myself (I would just download the .deb file, then do: ar x crapware.deb && tar xvf data.tar.xz), but now it is snap-only. I could not find any direct links on Snapcraft. I do not like this direction, to be honest.
- lokedhs 7y agoFlatpak installs nicely on Arch. I have to admit that I haven't used Snap, so I can't say if there is much in the way of features that Flatpak doesn't provide.
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