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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by madeofpalk on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:51PM (#31139435)
Ubuntu also gives you full control over how you want things installed also, right?

You're not forced into one method?

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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by colordrops on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:06PM (#31139964)
You aren't forced, but you are going against the grain of the OS if you start doing things that were not intended by the distribution maintainers. I used Ubuntu for a decade - I'm familiar with it. Every tweak ended up in a more and more unpredictable and unmaintainable system that I had to just dump and reinstall every once in a while.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by jckahn on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:32PM (#31139741)
Correct! Removing Snap Firefox and installing Flatpak Firefox was the first thing I did on my 22.04 install.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by jetbalsa on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:01PM (#31139936)
Wait.. Why a flatpack? Isn't that just as bad?
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by 3836293648 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:10PM (#31139982)
No, it really isn't. There are a lot of issues with both snap and flatpak, but the issue at hand is performance, specifically boot times. Snap is far, far behind every other solution out there
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by smoldesu on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:26PM (#31139693)
You can install Nix on Ubuntu just fine.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by colordrops on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:07PM (#31139968)
Might as well just use NixOS then.
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