GnomeComedy @ GnomeComedy @beehaw.org

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'Best for what?' is the issue with this never-ending pointless discussion.

RHEL is a fantastic distro... For some things. It's also a horrible distro... For other things.

I hate them because they make Ubuntu useless for a desktop in an enterprise environment. Snaps have a bug where they will NOT open with a network home directory, which is common for a business ... And now they've made Firefox snap only.

So for a business environment: you can't even open the included web browser. WTF?

Do you understand now?

Hey Canonical, how about you spend that effort fixing (or removing) snap instead?

I still can't open the default Firefox install when using NFS home directories with autofs.

Ubuntu is now almost useless in an actual business desktop environment.

They probably realized snaps are garbage and are still trying to desperately un-garbage them before the release.

They were a pain 20 years ago and they're a pain now.

Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker... Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.

The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service's enshitification... While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.

Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.

The distro you're using and the model of laptop and a link to the bug/commit would make it easier to answer what you can expect.

You assume everyone has root.

On a system I don't administer, I can compile and install software in my home directory (or shared directories that I have write access) by using:

./configure --PREFIX=/home/myuser/software/

make # to compile

make install #without sudo, to install to ~/software/bin

So when you say "only in (B)LFS", you're overlooking a VERY common use case - especially in HPC and other systems NOT running on my desk/lap.

Wouldn't the larger ones be the ones you'd get the most benefit from compiling?

For the uninitiated, does "gen" imply source/compilation somehow?

On 22.04 LTS, you can't even open Firefox if you're using NFS/Autofs home directories.

How is that not taken seriously as a major bug?

Ok I'll bite. What's the software you "need"?

Beeper predates this new iMessage thing by a few years. You just hadn't heard of them apparently.

See news story from 2021:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242143/beeper-universal-chat-app-imessage-whatsapp-signal-telegram-pebble-founder

• old laptop
• windows 11
• tech illiterate

Something doesn't add up, or only 2/3 are true.

Cool. But will we again be able to open Firefox on an NFS/autofs home directory?

Don't become so concerned with if you could, that you overlook if you should.

I would buy a larger drive.

I promise I'm not a troll, but I just don't understand the appeal. That's a crazy expensive piece of hardware to run a currently only mostly working distro.

Even when the hardware is 100% working, it's still ARM, so anything that's not open source won't run because it'll be x86_64.

Definitely a chicken and egg problem on availability of ARM software.

I'm asking in good faith - am I missing something?

The primary thing that makes FOSS popular is that you can fork it. You're saying that people need to not do the main thing it's designed to be able to do!

Snap is that bad when it doesnt work on network home directories, and both firefox and chromium (included in tbe distro) have been moved to snaps... So the included browsers can't even open.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1884299

That's the app OP is talking about 'selling out' to advertisers.