• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    I have to stop clicking on the phoronix comment section. It’s like a mini Twitter.

    Still, Ubuntu should also ditch snap instead of hanging onto it just because they wrote it. It’s the reason I don’t recommend Ubuntu to friends anymore.

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      22 hours ago

      I tried to open files placed in /tmp in Firefox and gave up after going down the sandbox rabbit hole. I then uninstalled the snap and did some acrobatics to get the apt version, as apt install firefox will actually install the snap by default.

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        19 hours ago

        Had the same experience with chromium. Can’t remember what I was trying to do but it involved accessing hardware (GPU or something) and it just didn’t work. That was until I found out apt install chromium installed a goddamn snap package. I felt betrayed and lied to.

        Canonical does great things, but that is definitely not one of them.

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      It’s the main reason many people avoid Ubuntu. They could achieve the same goal by shipping the Flatpak version of Firefox if they really don’t want to handle its packaging.