[AlexCoventry]

I don't understand what the big deal is, though. I run ubuntu and I don't run any snaps. This seems to work fine.

[guug]

If you're using desktop ubuntu, you're using snaps. Run `mount` to see which snaps ubunutu has mounted on your system.

[AlexCoventry]

Hmm, interesting. Thanks.

[KCUOJJQJ]

I do the same on 19.10. I also use another Chromium anyway, one that has hardware accelerated video playback.

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-...

It's available on Ubuntu 20.04.

Once the regular Chromium had a higher version number than the Chromium in the PPA. aptitude updated to the regular Chromium. I then gave the PPA Chromium a priority of 1000 by creating a file called /etc/apt/preferences.d/saiarcot895-chromium-beta with the following content:

  Package: *chromium*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-saiarcot895-chromium-beta
  Pin-Priority: 1000

[zapzupnz]

The point is that later releases will start forcing snaps on people without their knowledge.