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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.

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

They have been doing this for a while.

Would recommend you to stick to MX,Mint or if you care only about stability and not Updates debian.

Yeah, there's an entire page bitching about it on Linux Mint's website.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is KDE Neon still broken? For awhile it was the only Ubuntu based distro I'd recommend. Yes, I know about Mint but no HDR or Wayland.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it's not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that's a great thing.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

One of the reason I moved to MX Linux, it is Debian based, always latest everything, like 6.12.11 kernel, my FF just got updated to 135.0, and it is no systemd, no flatpak, no snap, everything is DEB, and stable.

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