After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla’s instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Exactly. But I would go further. I think Linux needs flagship distros with big solid institutions behind them, and it needs us to support those distros by using them. I know this is not an popular opinion here.

    I see those flagship distros precisely as Fedora and Ubuntu.

    • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      I’m a bit of an anarchist so I disagree on principal lol, but I do agree that that would help Linux usurp windows.

      My fear is that it would just then become windows within a decade or less. Getting big and institutional may work out. I’ve just seen a lot of cases go sour.

      To me the beauty of Linux is that it is less connected to large impersonal capitalistic structures. That’s why it feels different from Windows.