Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by pdonis on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:32PM
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> The browser is actually the number one component you should update as soon as a security fix comes out.
The problem is that there is no way to have a browser that only pushes updates for security fixes. They're always mixed in with changes to the UI that force people to re-learn workflows.
> If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use an LTS version that only includes the security updates?
There is no such thing. I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on all my computers at home and I'm posting this on, IIRC, the fifth or sixth new version of Firefox I've had to accept (and that's only counting major version changes), because, as noted above, there was no way to just get the security updates and leave out the others.
The problem is that there is no way to have a browser that only pushes updates for security fixes. They're always mixed in with changes to the UI that force people to re-learn workflows.
> If you don't want new features ("more free stuff!"), use an LTS version that only includes the security updates?
There is no such thing. I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on all my computers at home and I'm posting this on, IIRC, the fifth or sixth new version of Firefox I've had to accept (and that's only counting major version changes), because, as noted above, there was no way to just get the security updates and leave out the others.