Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?
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I'm reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it's not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that's a great thing.
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Disadvantage: you're now using a browser from the biggest
spyad-ware company and killed web heterogeneity. -
Too late, they own my soul already. I have successfully resisted Meta, X, Microsoft, and any number of lesser daemons, but the one true G has shown me their light and I am unable to look away.
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True, but more often than not mozilla should have newer packages on their repository than any distribution. And the main problem still is that Ubuntu changed apt and threw snap in to the mix where it doesn't belong.
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Try sunglasses? But maybe other sould can still be saved from evil..
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I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said?
I'm saying that just adding Mozilla's PPA to your sources won't change apt's behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.
As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I'm well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.
Even though it's an underhanded move by Cannonical, I'm still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.
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They delivered their promise: they were at least not evil, at first.
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I've had it happen too. In fact it is what prompted me to move away from Kubuntu.
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Welcome to 2020, where Debian is once again your trusted distro.
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I suggest Mint or straight Debian. I prefer Mint for anything graphical, Debian for headless
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What benifit does Mint have over Debian for anything graphical?
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I've just found it's more polished right out of the box. Definitely more new-user-friendly, like Ubuntu, but with Snap gutted out.
I have been using the regular Mint (based on Ubuntu), but I'm probably going to use the Debian edition next time I install a new system
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Just wait for snap 2.0 which actually runs everything inside docker containers /s
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It's not barebones. I use it as my main desktop and barely notice any difference from Ubuntu, it has every package I've ever needed. I think that mentality of Debian being "bare" is outdated.
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Thats... odd. The installer packages aren't really that different. When was this?
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I battled that for about a year and then ditched Debian based diatros altogether.
OpenSUSE ftw
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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.
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Or you can just remove snap. I have been running a up-to-date snap-free ubuntu for 2 years
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I had it happen a few times. I moved away from Kubuntu as a result.
