| Walt Mankowski via plug on 21 Jun 2022 03:35:57 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Firefox on snap |
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 04:37:39PM -0400, Steve Litt via plug wrote: > JP Vossen via plug said on Sat, 18 Jun 2022 13:52:37 -0400 > > >On 6/4/22 14:40, JP Vossen wrote: > >> 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 Part 2: > >https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-improving-firefox-snap-performance-part-2 > > Be aware that snap either requires systemd or makes it extremely > difficult to use without systemd. Void Linux users need not apply. > > Even if you're currently happy as a clam with systemd, consider that > systemd every month subsumes more and more of the OS, and there may > come a time when you want to switch to a better init system. At that > point snap stops working. > > Why not use Flatpack instead? Because I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. Doing anything without systemd isn't much of an option. In this version they started distributing Firefox via snap. I suppose I could try to install Flatpack, or I could just be lazy and keep using it the way the distro wants me to. Walt ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug