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Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two.

From Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz>
Newsgroups uk.comp.os.linux
Subject Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two.
Date 2025-05-24 07:50 +0000
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On 2025-02-17, Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:35:36 +0000
> Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 16/02/2025 19:10, Davey wrote:
>> > I am coming round to a choice: ...  
>> 
>> Or you could ditch Ubuntu and install Debian (on which Ubuntu is
>> based) or Mint (which is based on Ubuntu), neither of which supports
>> snap by default, and install Firefox and Thunderbird in the usual way.
>> 
>> Snap is supposed to solve a number of problems that can result from 
>> incompatible versions of various dependencies being required by 
>> different applications, but it comes with problems of its own ...
>> and, to be honest, in nearly 15 years of using Linux as my primary
>> desktop IOS I have only once run into a problem of the kind that snap
>> solves.
>> 
>> For Canonical (who make Ubuntu) snap is also the mechanism behind the 
>> snap store, which is effectively their own proprietary app store.
>> That's actually not a very linuxish thing.
>> 
>
> Hmm. Having just said that I do not want to learn a new system, what
> you are saying seems to address the problems that I am encountering.
> Maybe I'll give it a go.
> Thanks.
>

Good lad. Why change something that you know and works?

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Help needed after upgrade Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-14 16:27 +0000
  Re: Help needed after upgrade Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-02-14 17:57 +0000
    Re: Help needed after upgrade Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-14 19:56 +0000
      Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-16 19:10 +0000
        Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-16 23:35 +0000
          Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-17 08:46 +0000
            Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-17 16:59 +0000
              Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-17 17:50 +0000
              Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-20 09:59 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-20 14:41 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-20 17:45 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-20 17:46 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-22 17:36 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-22 21:11 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-22 22:47 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-23 12:45 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-23 13:43 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-23 14:16 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-23 13:27 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-23 14:11 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-23 17:06 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-23 17:34 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-23 19:40 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-23 22:04 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-24 16:52 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-24 17:17 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-23 19:33 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-23 23:23 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-02-24 16:31 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-24 20:20 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-04-29 16:05 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-04-29 17:40 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-04-29 17:44 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-29 18:29 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:33 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-29 22:16 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 23:17 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-29 23:23 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-30 08:12 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-30 17:08 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-05-04 17:14 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two and a half. Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-05-05 07:56 +0100
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2025-05-24 08:00 +0000
                Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-24 10:55 +0100
            Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2025-05-24 07:50 +0000
  Re: Help needed after upgrade Test post Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-02-16 19:08 +0000

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