Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?
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I feel like snaps are black boxier tho.
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Unfortunately it's my only option at work because my employer wants the security of Ubuntu pro
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I'm a bit of an anarchist so I disagree on principal lol, but I do agree that that would help Linux usurp windows.
My fear is that it would just then become windows within a decade or less. Getting big and institutional may work out. I've just seen a lot of cases go sour.
To me the beauty of Linux is that it is less connected to large impersonal capitalistic structures. That's why it feels different from Windows.
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The installer, last time I tried it, was glitchy and unintuitive.
I used it a few months ago and it was pretty smooth.
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That is not the same thing as "snap and apt Firefox are the same". They just hijacked apt to force snap in.
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So both commands do the same thing... right? I'm not saying snap and apt are the same.
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I'm a relative Linux noob and Manjaro Arch works perfectly for me, no babysitting required.
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You are missing the attribution. The person you are replying to is making a home that canonical says they are the same, not that they are actually the same.
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You are missing the attribution. The person you are replying to is making a joke that Canonical says they are the same, not that they are actually the same.
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Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I'm not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.
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Yeah it's not really a secret
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I used it decades ago (using the CLI installer for a Sid install I eventually fucked up beyond repair) and it was okay for a slightly tech savvy teenager, even then.
I suspect a lot of these issues are down to hardware compatibility more than anything else.
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Yeah, there's an entire page bitching about it on Linux Mint's website.
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Yeah for sure, I read your comment as excusing canonical screwing with user intent but I see that's not what you meant.
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Red Hat and Ubuntu.
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Chromium too iirc
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It was a collaboration, although I'm having trouble finding a source for who wanted it first.
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This is why i switched to Debian. It's 99% of Ubuntu, without the crap.
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Yup,
apt install chromium-browsercallssnap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There's a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default. -
Clearly they’re cosplaying as a Canonical engineer whose internal explanation and pleas for them to not take this approach fell upon deaf ears /j
