After Chromium, Ubuntu Now Converts Firefox to Snap by Default Starting with Ubuntu 21.10
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I learned it as soon as the 21.10 beta release.
Presumably, Ubuntu is trying to strike a balance between deb and snap. snap makes it easier to smuggle proprietary junks.
> strike a balance
Strike deb, rather.
Wondering what nasnapula.1984 might think about this.
Looks like Firefox is slow loading from a cold launch with Snap. You can watch Matt from TheLinuxCast open it here at the 15:27 mark:
https://odysee.com/@thelinuxcast:4/ubuntu-21.10-beta-first-look-ubuntu-with:3
If they remove the deb version, I guess future versions of Trisquel will have to pull the firefox package from Debian unstable/experimental.
Ubuntu still relies on deb. Without deb Ubuntu would be nothing. And even if there would be no "firefox(-esr)" in Ubuntu's main/universe, it's still in Debian's main.
See how many distributions that want to develop their own packaging system have failed. Reinventing wheels is not always necessary.
>"See how many distributions that want to develop their own packaging system have failed. Reinventing wheels is not always necessary."
Which ones have failed? Seems like a lot have succeeded and are doing well. I can't think of any package managers that are no longer in use.
One glaring example was StartOS, a Chinese distribution which initially used deb but then tried to develop its own ypk format... and then died.
Ubuntu got rid of the Chromium deb package. There is still a transitional deb package but it just installs the snap. https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/chromium-browser
So there is reason to expect that they will do the same for Firefox.
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