Wilmo

I did this myself in 2023, coming from google. And have now dropped their Eco system for all disconnected privacy friendly options like mailbox.org and bitwarden for example.

But I also use my own domain and a ton of alias email addresses so wasn’t locked to my proton email address in any meaningful way

You’re probably the first person ever to daily drive MX Linux, the most popular distro according to distrowatch

Did I explicitly state that I was aware of how this worked in my original comment? I did? Oh good.

I don’t care if Firefox isn’t updated until I restart it. I just don’t want that terrible workflow:

Click update all. Firefox is open, therefore won’t update until you close it and click update again.

Every other package manager: Click update. All apps update. When I am ready to close Firefox it’ll be updated next time I use it.

Not really though? Or rather - then answer the other half. Why are flatpaks, deb, rpm, arch, etc. ALL able to update in place? But with snaps we need that sucker closed? It sucks to use like that.

Its also for my experience the worst way to use apps.

The fact that I can’t “update” my software without closing it first.

Why can I do that with all other package formats? I get it won’t be the new version until I reopen the app but still. Its unnecessary friction.

Also with the prompting last I used it Firefox couldn’t download anything with it enabled.

Like you ship Ubuntu with like 4 major snaps including the security center and it hasn’t or hadn’t worked with your shipped snaps for at least a year?

People using that distro gives me second hand embarrassment

18.04 it looks like

Going to Refine instead of the age old Gnome Tweaks is an interesting way to tell how long someone has been familiar with Gnome.

That being said if you use Gnome how they want you to, you don’t need those extensions.

That way isn’t for everyone as it’s very different from what many used to but when you do get used to it those extensions will feel unnecessary

I mean that is what Edmund McMillan started as, up until the remake of Binding of Isaac really

Debian might work but it will always be behind and if any performance upgrades are done at a kernel level or a DE then you won’t get them until those fixes are potentially already obsolete.

I’d have to check but I think the only EA game I even care one iota about would be Dead Space. But I already got the remake for free on PS5 and I pretty highly doubt they’ll remake the other two so… I’m good

Is he even very tech savvy? Like IIRC he tried to install a Linux Desktop once. And on installing steam he went ahead with the terminal prompts that were warning him whatever weird command he did was going to nuke his desktop environment.

On Gnome with the dash to panel extension, arc menu (mint layout), desktop icons, and tray icons aka kstatus notifier icons is an incredibly compatible and in many cases better Cinnamon like experience and you have Wayland that works.

I screen share on Slack with Wayland at work every day

Dark Souls is a 14 year old game