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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by andrepd on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:27PM (#31139698)
Linux Mint is my go-to distro. Polished and extremely stable.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by stormbrew on Saturday April 23, 2022 @07:40PM (#31139787)
Mint is based on ubuntu though isn't it? Looking around it looks like they balked at the Chromium snapification, but that's going to get more untenable as time goes on.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by gs17 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:32PM (#31140117)
By default you can't even install Snap on Mint. It's a simple change to allow it, but they seem pretty dedicated to avoiding it.
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by behnamoh on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:37PM (#31140476)
More stable than Fedora?
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Re:Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) by dralley on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:02PM (#31140605)
It's based on Ubuntu LTS so it changes less than Fedora does. Also it's not exactly cutting edge, for instance there's no support for Wayland because Cinnamon is based on a forked extremely old version of GNOME.

Which is fine, it does what people need it to do for now. Arguably it may fall further and further behind over time though.

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