Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?
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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.
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They do install less by default, but I'd love to pick their brain to understand what they meant. Oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Linux just isnt transparent about some things. Beginners most have problems when they use a GUI tool and then have to still edit a file. Like dirt example, adding a new drive using GUI disk utility and then sometime in the future disconnecting the drive and being forced into emergency mode.
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Always was.
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Firefox now has instructions on their "Debian-based" install section about pinning their repo over Canonical's so that doesn't happen.
Because you're right, Canonical does think so highly of their product that they will constantly attempt to undermine other options against your will.
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And pin other repos so Ubuntu doesn't replace it. And change the apt.conf rules that alias out apt install commands for the snap install equivalent. And whatever the countermeasure is for the next sneaky ploy they put into action.
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My guess is: prior to Bookworm, when they started including non-free firmware on installation media by default.
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I'd suggest the KDE flavor of Debian, then. Its settings manager is divine, and its software management platform ties every other package management system in (apt/dpkg for Debian, yum for Redhat, pacman for Arch, plus flatpak, nixpkg, and even snaps if you absolutely must). By default starting in Plasma 6.0.
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You can get Gnome on Fedora. It won't have Apt.
Packages will have a different naming scheme based on the maintainers' preferences, even between Debian and Ubuntu (though those are usually pretty minor).
Your muscle memory is gonna trip you up for a while though. -
Uhh, that's a thing in any modern distro? I plug and unplug SATA drives all the time.
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Ahhh yea, that would make sense.
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Have you correctly set your apt preferences? I didn't have any issues anymore since I've done that.
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It was the KDE version.
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It depends on the fstab mount flags, specifically nofail.
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That snap shit was so bad it made me switch to Arch.
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Why use Mint when Mx exists.
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They have been doing this for a while.
Would recommend you to stick to MX,Mint or if you care only about stability and not Updates debian.
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I'm sure that I've set the apt preferences according to Mozilla's article. I'll have to wait and see until a new update arrives to Firefox.
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This isn't Debian's fault! It's purely an Ubuntu/Canonical problem. Debian's only apt by default, no snap.
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Its driver manager is better for newbies. Worse for experienced users though imo.
