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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox? (lemm.ee)

submitted 12 hours ago by sourov@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla's instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

For work, you could also try Fedora Workstation or Linux Mint Debian Edition. Debian is pretty barebones, but if that isnt a bother then do whatever.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I like gnome, but i guess i could look at fedora.

I would like to stay with apt as package manager so the package names stay the same to what I know, or is yum/dnf/etc gonna use the same for most?

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Mostly the same, and if not all it has taken for me to figure it out was searching "fedora $pkgname"