Yeah, Ubuntu is the only culprit here. They sneakily swapped out apt with snap packages when trying to use apt. So while you think you’re using a package from apt, it’ll swap out to using Snap. Pretty scummy.

Fedora is fine.

Mint doesn’t natively shove down snap down your throat though 🙂

I’d like to interject for a moment. There is also a tool called bat that is just cat with extra features. It prints out and works just like cat, but when the contents get too big, it works like less. The is syntax highlighting and works with git.

It’s replaced my need for cat and less.

Or alternatively, Molly