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

  • Karna
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    610 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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      410 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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        310 months ago

        Best way is to add Mozilla deb repo,IMO.

        • @psud
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          210 months ago

          The deb is in the Ubuntu repositories by default.

    • @Tattorack
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      210 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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        210 months ago

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

      • @FrankTheHealer
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        110 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.