Re: [PLUG] Firefox on snap

[Steve Litt via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

JP Vossen via plug said on Sat, 4 Jun 2022 14:40:31 -0400

>On 5/28/22 14:33, JP Vossen wrote:
>> On 5/25/22 19:06, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:  
>>> On Fri, May 20, 2022, at 11:01 AM, Walt Mankowski wrote:  
>>>> This is exactly what I was worried about with having Firefox on
>>>> snap on Ubuntu 22.04:  
>> ...
>> 
>> More discussion:
>> https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-improving-firefox-snap-performance-part-1
>>  
>
>And:
>*
>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/05/ubuntu-making-firefox-snap-app-faster
>*
>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
>
>Yet:
>*
>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/ubuntu-wont-support-flatpak-anytime-soon
>[1]
>* But you can still:
>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/how-to-install-flatpak-on-ubuntu
>
>[1] Interestingly: "...while Snaps may be popular with an enormous
>number developers there is, to my eyes, a gulf growing between the
>kinds of apps available on each respective store. Commercial,
>proprietary and Electron-based software seems to favour Canonical’s
>Snap Store, but open source software developed in native toolkits
>seems more drawn to the experiences offered by Flatpak and Flathub.

Also, snap installs don't work on computers without systemd. Flatpaks
do.

Now most people thing, "well, what's the big deal, all distros use
systemd!" First of all, that's not true, and second, if you ever get
tired of systemd, you also have to get rid of all your snaps.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
Proud user of sans-systemd Void Linux for seven years.
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