On 02/11/2019, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > If I remember correctly, Ubuntu MATE uses its own "Software Center". I could > > try it in a VM and see what happens. Of course, it will surely recommend > non-free junks like gnome-software does in Ubuntu, so it must be purified. > > I personally don't like gnome-software very much. It (at least as used in > Ubuntu) used ambiguous term "free" to denote either free software or gratis > > non-free software. It also has other freedom issues mentioned above. Even if > > I sometimes use Gnome 3 as desktop environment, I never used gnome-software. > > Instead, I uninstall gnome-software as soon as I finish installing the > system. >
The Ubuntu Software Centre is in UbuntuMATE 16.04.x, upon which, I understand Trisquel 8 to be based, but is removed (and replaced with an inferior thing) in Ubuntu 18.04.x, upon which, I understand Trisquel 9 to be based. My preference, that I now use within UbuntuMATE, for adding software, is synaptic, which is already part of Trisquel, as I regard synaptic as far superior, and, more user friendly, than the software managers (or things that add and remove software) from UbuntuMATE 18.04, onward. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
