Comment by severino
2 years ago
Does Pop OS allow you to install software that Canonical forces through snap, like Firefox or Chromium, using the distribution's package manager (apt or whatever)?
2 years ago
Does Pop OS allow you to install software that Canonical forces through snap, like Firefox or Chromium, using the distribution's package manager (apt or whatever)?
Yes, you can install things manually, though popOS has its own own flatpak based "store" if you prefer that model. There are a few things that are missing from both though because the vendor only releases software in snap form and no one's bundled it otherwise (e.g. lxd). For those, you can either build from source or install snap yourself.
Yes, installing things manually is always an option (even in Ubuntu!), but I wondered if in Pop it was an option to "apt install firefox" and get your package installed the "old way", with no sandboxing, using shared libraries from the system, allowing for upgrading with "apt upgrade" the moment you decide, etc. But if PopOs repo is flatpak based as you say, I guess the answer would be no.
Yes, that is the norm on Pop. They removed snaps in the standard setup and have their own package repository. You can install stuff normally and if you don't find something you can use flatpaks.
Yes. I'm using Pop and my Firefox is installed through apt.
You can use Snaps and Flatpak if you want.