Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 will be snap-packaged

Re:Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 will be snap-packaged by kstenerud on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:04AM (#30818576)

Yup, and it's a shambles. I can't even install it on nightly 22.04 without the usual weird permissions errors and failed daemon launches that have plagued snap since its inception (not to mention the hundreds of annoying loop devices it creates).

I liked Ubuntu because pretty much every piece of Linux software had a package for apt, but this is my breaking point. Now I have to decide between rpm and pkg since Debian's packages are always too outdated.

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Re:Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 will be snap-packaged by pasadenasunrise on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:47AM (#30828178)

Just run Sid. My daily driver has been Sid for the last three years, with no major hiccups. Nvidia driver updates have worked surprisingly well. Only difference from Ubuntu has been minor edits needed by shell scripts for specific software installs.

Something that surprised me was that Debian Sid + GUI still benchmarked (pts, geekbench, cinebench) higher than Arch running CLI-only.

Give it a try, if only just for grins.

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