I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

  • @FrankTheHealer
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    505 months ago

    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

    • @Huschke
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      5 months ago

      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.”

      • @merthyr1831
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        55 months ago

        Mint to Manjaro so you can still claim you’re on arch btw but cling onto your sanity until Manjaro devs inevitability break something

    • @Tattorack
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      25 months ago

      I’ve never used snaps and never been forced to use them.

      • Karna
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        65 months ago

        “been forced” part is definitely true for Firefox and Thunderbird packages. Snap packages takes precedence over deb package, if I remember it correctly.

        • @psud
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          45 months ago

          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

          • Karna
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            35 months ago

            Best way is to add Mozilla deb repo,IMO.

            • @psud
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              25 months ago

              The deb is in the Ubuntu repositories by default.

        • @Tattorack
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          25 months ago

          But I just installed Firefox with apt-get. Fairly certain it doesn’t install the snap version that way.

          • Karna
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            25 months ago

            Can you check if you already have Mozilla deb repo setup on your ubuntu installation?

          • @FrankTheHealer
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            15 months ago

            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.

    • Possibly linux
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      15 months ago

      Then after a while you get bored so you move to Fedora/Linux mint and are happy.