'The effort that is going into having application developers be able to target a single runtime or that works across distributions, I think is absolutely fantastic, and it's something that's been missing for many many years on Linux systems,' said Gnome Foundation executive director Neil McGovern, speaking to The Register recently, though he expressed similar misgivings to those of Lefebvre, saying: 'I do have a concern that the Snap Store is entirely gated by Canonical.' The notion of building applications into containerised packages is not going away. The new Mint-built Chromium shows that the team is serious about enabling its users to manage without the Snap store, though as some have commented, the problem could recur with other packages. deb package, but Chrome is not open source, making Chromium a more attractive proposition for Linux users. Google does offer its Chrome browser as a. deb package but is not open source and comes with baggage of its own The official Google Chrome is also available as a.

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