What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.

I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.

I’m so done with Ubuntu.

  • Barbossa404@feddit.de
    6·
    10 months ago

    Same for our student PCs - As soon as the setup includes network homes snap becomes completely unusable. Applications just crash on startup because snap doesn’t allow them to access the user’s home directory

    • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Yup, also student PCs with home on network share here (:

      But always remember, “Snap is production ready and enterprise grade” or whatever