Because in even ‘permissive’ mode, it blocks some fairly routine things.

Been full on Linux since Slackware 1.0, kernel 0.99pl13. Brought Linux into Boeing, and even to the z/Series (s390) mainframe. Ported all their tightly woven NFS with NIS user environments written for ksh on HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris to working with Linux and it’s (at the time) not so perfect automounter. Ported a large LISP application from HP-UX to Linux for them, as well.

Today I’m a full time SRE, deploying and managing HA Linux clusters, large cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes, leveraging IaC for nearly all of it. I use to make packages and kernels for a smaller distro back in the late 2000’s. Ran two ISP’s entirely on Linux and an internet cafe with Linux servers when Wyse terminals and ISDN was a thing, with a couple Windows 3.1 then 95 clients on the network. I program currently in Python, C, C++, Rust, and Go. I’ve forgotten more Fortran, LISP, Cobol, and Perl than I can ever get back, not that I would want to. I’ve made Linux my personal hobby and my career for 30 years. There is nothing casual about my relationship with Linux.

We get it, your a filthy … nevermind, shouldn’t say that here.

You can install the snap package if you want access to snaps… but one of the draws of Mint is, you said it, no snaps.

This is why I don’t understand the downvote hate I got for mentioning flatpak. Downvoted for the correct advice, which is so very Linux “community”. I’ve been running Linux since Slackware 1.0, and the only thing consistent about the Linux community is it’s eagerness to eat it’s own.

i know i can use the flatpak version and i did try that one out on my other laptop but, i think it will come to the package manager when some stuff is fixed??? thank you

Not likely, at least not for Mint or your current version of Ubuntu. For Ubuntu, it probably would end up in their next major release, like 26.04 for LTS, and whatever the next interim release is for non LTS. Mint is based on LTS, so sometime after 26.04 Ubuntu.

Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, PPA, or build from source would be your options on Mint for now.

@superkret@feddit.org is correct.

You kids are savage today, the hell?

Cool, glad you know that. Were you also aware that by running Linux Mint, you are tied to Ubuntu LTS releases? This would mean major revisions in software upgrades only come with next major releases of Mint. So that leaves you with flatpaks, snaps, or PPA repositories, or building it yourself. LTS releases designed this way so that you run known stable versions of pretty much everything. Switching to a rolling release distro would bring you what you want more quickly, but at the cost of more potential hiccups… but I say potential, because problems might never arise.

Tell us YOU know nothing about running Linux, especially Mint, which is based on Ubuntu LTS releases, meaning it won’t get gimp 3.0 until the next major release, and so a flatpak, snap, or PPA with an unreliable release cadence are the only ways to get it before then unless you compile it yourself. Seriously dude, pull your head out.

Tell us you don’t know what a flatpak is without telling us you don’t know what a flatpak is.

I wanna new distro
One that won’t make me sick
One that won’t make me crash my PC
Or make me feel like a d**k
I want a new distro
One that won’t hurt my head
One that won’t make run CPU too high
Or make my NAS disks RED

One that won’t make me defrag
Watching squares of blue
One that makes me feel like I feel when I use UNIX too…
When I get to boooot you.

Zomg, they still have Yast?!? That was the main thing that drove me away ages ago!

I think it comes from a lack of formal typing instruction leading to a hunt and peck by index finger style of typing.

That’s why Arch has the AUR. :)

Switch to something that always delivers the latest KDE Plasma. That’s old.

I even wrote a function to parse a json for some configuration details, and loop through it to dynamically create more named functions from that json profile. I use it at work for automating my cloud account logins with a single profile name from the command line. :)

But then I’d have to run Nix.

Functions are best for this.