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@Zyansheep I don't know the answer to that, the point is switching from one to the other is problematic. If I switch to flatpak and it happens to be newer but is even worse, then I can't switch back.

@Zyansheep The main problem with switching versions of Firefox is if you go backwards, i.e., if the flatpack is even one point release behind the existing, it's very difficult to get the existing profile to work. I've compiled my own version which seemed like the ultimate solution, then the version doesn't change unless I decide it does, but wasn't able to read my old profile which is a problem.

@randint I do like PPA's so like most things there are things you don't like and things you like, and for what it's worth I have a Manjaro, Debian, Ubuntu, Centos7, Fedora, CentosStream, Mint, Zorin, and MxLinux machines, most of them virtual machines, but Ubuntu is my daily driver, Debian I use for kernel builds because Debian needs signed kernel packages and other distros are OK with them. The others I need if I'm working on something specific to Redhat or that particular distro.

I've not been fond of Chrome and Edge because of the spyware aspect, but Firefox lately has become so friggin' flakey since it's gone snap that it's almost unusable and now that there is a Linux version of Edge, it actually seems to operate quite smoothly.

There isn't a distro that doesn't support Xen because it's built into the kernel, and I've built virtual machines on Xen and Qemu-KVM, compared their performance and found the differences minute at best but Qemu-KVM is more flexible so not sure why I'd want to use Xen anyway.

Actually, CHOICE is the reason I use Linux. If I wanted what you suggest, I'd be using WhenBlows or MacCrap.

Does it provide an error message? Might try lower level, dpkg -r libnvidia-compute-470.

My experience with snap has been nothing but bad, I absolutely hate it.

@AvengingFemme So so, it's easier to find "relevant" responses with google, IF it's not something politically charged that Google is intentionally suppressing, but if it is something Google doesn't want you to see you're likely to find it with yacy. The way yacy works, each node talks to all the others, so whatever your site has indexed, and you can direct what it indexes, those results are combined with all the other nodes when you do a search. But the downside is that it is resource intensive, particularly you need a lot of RAM, 96GB is marginal.

@s4if @Machefi I was kicked off of Farcebook almost three years ago now, that's when I started my friendica and hubzilla mode. I began to find it increasingly difficult to find things on Google or Bing, so I turned first to DuckDuckGo, but then they turned to using Google's database, so became useless, so I went to Swisscows, then they did the same with the same results, so at that point I started by Yacy node (a federated search engine). We do what we must out of necessity.

My take on this whole thing, "If you're afraid to play on a level playing field, then you don't belong in the game."

Sorry but I think what will most likely happen is people who tire of farcebook's censorship, once they realize there are alternatives they will jump and the traffic will be spread around. Some smaller sites may not handle it but they can become niche sites.