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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Now you just need to remove snaps. And then when Canonical still forces them on you, you move to Linux Mint, but then Linux mint won't be updated as often as you'd like. So then you move to Arch. Then you'll really be one of us

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Isn't that the least updated of the above choices? (if you run stable)

[–] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Debian testing is the way (perhaps haven't tried it but I'm intrigued to know the experience) 🤔

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

I'm just getting in on the fun.

Everyone should run Kali. 🤪

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Well don't the testing versions like Debian Sid get updates regularly enough ?

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Mint to Arch?

That's like saying: "ok now that you have driven your for first car for a few weeks it's time to fly your first plane. Good luck."

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mint to Manjaro so you can still claim you're on arch btw but cling onto your sanity until Manjaro devs inevitability break something

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That was me as a Linux noob 5 years ago

[–] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I'm in the Manjaro phase right now, it's been going well for the past 2 years. Wish me luck!

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never used snaps and never been forced to use them.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"been forced" part is definitely true for Firefox and Thunderbird packages. Snap packages takes precedence over deb package, if I remember it correctly.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is difficult to switch out the Firefox snap for the deb. If you install anything from the easy-to-use software store it'll be a snap.

I'm glad I know my way around the terminal tools

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Best way is to add Mozilla deb repo,IMO.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The deb is in the Ubuntu repositories by default.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But I just installed Firefox with apt-get. Fairly certain it doesn't install the snap version that way.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Can you check if you already have Mozilla deb repo setup on your ubuntu installation?

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It can. There was a 'feature' in Ubuntu before that made apt actually fetch the Snap version instead. I think this was the case for Chromium and Firefox. I don't know if this is still the case though.