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Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Everything is going to snap in Ubuntu. It's why I don't use it 🤷
It even recently made my life very difficult because something I did recently only worked on chromium non-snap, but ubuntu provides no easy way to use the non-snap version. Most frustrating experience on that distro ever. Unfortunately, it can't be replaced as it's on a relative's computer...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I run Ubuntu on my home servers, simply because I always used it, resources and help are plentiful and it's well documented. I thought.

Took me a while to realize that after moving to a new machine and upgrading to 22.04 docker was installed as a fucking snap and a bunch of my apps didn't work because of that. I got it all running now, but every VM and LXC I'll install going forward will be running Debian instead. Fuck this annoying shit.

Edit: Or I might try out Mint Mate, since it's what I know best (aka Ubuntu) without snaps. What would you guys recommend for a basic homelab?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could go for the best of both worlds and use Mint LMDE (Debian Edition). But if only using it as a server, plain Debian should be all you need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ooooooo, I didn't know about that project! I'll definitely spin up a VM and check LMDE out. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can still use chromium no snap https://askubuntu.com/questions/1386738/how-to-install-chromium-from-the-linux-mint-repositories-in-ubuntu

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I was sitting next to the laptop's owner who was in a hurry and already huffing and puffing. Didn't want to mess up their system by pinning stuff and installing certs or running into issues with "repository not found" issues. In the end, switching to another computer was much faster.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ugh had a similar experience at work related to the chromium package. In our case it had to do with the arm64 build of chromium in an environment that can't run snaps (docker), so we were pretty much entirely without a solution.