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Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox.
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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I also hate that anyone would side for snap based browser installation, and that any of you are upvoting it is horribly icky.
I like my apps to be contained somehow. I don't like all the choices canonical made with snap, but I like containment.
Your responses here tho, yeah. Icky.
I like some things as flatpak or appimage. But not my browsers, I use a hacked in widevine plugin.
I know you do. I want my stuff in containers as much as possible. So maybe be less judgemental about other people wanting to do that, and I won't be judgementable about you not wanting to do that.
I see where you're headed... but having automatic updates, when I'm using a specific PPA to keep me off of a particular snap, only to have that PPA then also shove me over without asking right back to the thing the PPA was designed to help me avoid... Not ok. Just close the PPA, don't make it a trojan horse to install what I didn't want anyway. That is hostile and makes me very judgemental and a stick in the mud.
I don't care about that sorry, just commenting on you being a hostile to others about what they choose to do for no reason. Maybe don't do that.
Yeah, not caring about your incorrect assumption. As for hostile, try this on... Go stuff it, get lost, you're uninvited.
oh no
You're being an obvious shill for Ubuntu abusing the debian packaging to force the snap store. Blocking you.
Lol
Can you articulate why?