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I honestly don't see a reason why should Ubuntu make it easy to install downloaded deb files. People who know the risks will just use apt on the command line. P
by lukaslalinsky 2y ago
I honestly don't see a reason why should Ubuntu make it easy to install downloaded deb files. People who know the risks will just use apt on the command line. People who download random files spotify-1.2.3.deb from the internet are really better served by sandboxed snap package.
- JohnFen 2y agoUbuntu is mostly aimed at the less experienced user, so it seems OK in that context. I just hope that kind of thing doesn't spread to other distros. If Debian did this, I'd be pretty irritated.
- crimsonnoodle58 2y agoDon't agree with this. All of googles apps come via debs (chrome, google earth, etc), as does microsofts (edge, vscode) and numerous other big name applications. They then use the deb to add their apt repository and from then on they are self updating. Deb is actually a great way of distributing an app other than via an app store, and it seems Ubuntu clearly want to kill that.