Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gordon Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Help needed after upgrade Reply Take two. Date: 24 May 2025 07:50:34 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net rSqYI6v4oZguoSACUgKRYwkO5AwnVkPiDWGF+Mx+9hz7KGUMr9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QizO2uCCGvXlyTDNjGXuOBR51SA= sha256:fOhvzspm5ZCO7Z4gqVbp6aA27kYsFrZ64ozAPKLIli4= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:23629 On 2025-02-17, Davey wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:35:36 +0000 > Daniel James 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?