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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Especially since snaps cause tons of problems, for some reason. I actually switched to Debian a while ago because the snap Firefox kept randomly forgetting history items, cookies, settings, etc.

[–] Semmelstulle@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually the non GUI Snaps are good. I still prefer not to use snaps but they are well done. It's just the software for the average user that starts to suck on Ubuntu. Their focus silently shifted to cloud and server, not desktop. And it shows

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why release it then? And with Firefox? I mean, if some weird niche application threw some errors under certain circumstances, fine, you can't test everything. But Firefox? I mean, OSes are just browser-enablers these days and if Ubuntu sucks at this very basic thing, it's garbage.

[–] Semmelstulle@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Canonical believes in Snap supremacy.