Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?

[txtechnician@lemmy.ml]

I battled that for about a year and then ditched Debian based diatros altogether.

OpenSUSE ftw

[juipeltje@lemmy.world]

It's a joke based of the fact that when you type apt install firefox on ubuntu, it will install the snap instead of the deb package, which is what you would expect when you use apt to install something.

[mubelotix@jlai.lu]

Or you can just remove snap. I have been running a up-to-date snap-free ubuntu for 2 years

[limelight79@lemm.ee]

I had it happen a few times. I moved away from Kubuntu as a result.

[noble_bacon@lemmy.ml]

You could have gone pure Debian. There are no snap shenanigans over there

OpenSuse is also a great pick tho!

[inetknght@lemmy.ml]

Why would you use an inferior product? Firefox via Snap is shit but it's still better than any version of Chrome

[mangocats@feddit.it]

I have used both, back and forth for years.

Chrome serves me better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)

[shy_mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah they've been doing that for a while

[satanclaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I like my operating system to work for me not against me. So no. I'll just never use their shitty spin of Linux and rely on someone that makes a quality distro. Not one that forced it's users to use their pile of shit proprietary nonsense.

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I had a friend jump ship from Windows and they said that Debian felt barebones. I personally dont have any problem with it, I use it all the time for VMs, server, and I used to main it. I still think it is missing a lot of user-friendly small things that i never noticed on my own because I am very comfortable with Linux.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

They do install less by default, but I'd love to pick their brain to understand what they meant. Oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯