I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
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Now you just need to remove snaps. And then when Canonical still forces them on you, you move to Linux Mint, but then Linux mint won't be updated as often as you'd like. So then you move to Arch. Then you'll really be one of us
coughDebiancough
😁
Isn't that the least updated of the above choices? (if you run stable)
Debian testing is the way (perhaps haven't tried it but I'm intrigued to know the experience) 🤔
I'm just getting in on the fun.
Everyone should run Kali. 🤪
Well don't the testing versions like Debian Sid get updates regularly enough ?
Mint to Arch?
That's like saying: "ok now that you have driven your for first car for a few weeks it's time to fly your first plane. Good luck."
Mint to Manjaro so you can still claim you're on arch btw but cling onto your sanity until Manjaro devs inevitability break something
I'm in the Manjaro phase right now, it's been going well for the past 2 years. Wish me luck!
That was me as a Linux noob 5 years ago
I've never used snaps and never been forced to use them.
"been forced" part is definitely true for Firefox and Thunderbird packages. Snap packages takes precedence over deb package, if I remember it correctly.
It is difficult to switch out the Firefox snap for the deb. If you install anything from the easy-to-use software store it'll be a snap.
I'm glad I know my way around the terminal tools
Best way is to add Mozilla deb repo,IMO.
The deb is in the Ubuntu repositories by default.
But I just installed Firefox with apt-get. Fairly certain it doesn't install the snap version that way.
Can you check if you already have Mozilla deb repo setup on your ubuntu installation?
It can. There was a 'feature' in Ubuntu before that made apt actually fetch the Snap version instead. I think this was the case for Chromium and Firefox. I don't know if this is still the case though.