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    Snap bad (midwest.social)
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    [–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    you can install firefox, but even if you click 'make firefox my default browser', it won't. It will open the settings, wait a second and then show you another button. Clicking that will do what you wanted - for web links. Pdf files? Html files? Searches from the start menu? Still all open edge.

    On ubuntu it takes maybe a minute to remove the firefox snap, add the mozilla repo and install from there. Those dummie packages are more for convenience than anything nefarious. I agree that snaps have been made unavoidable if you're not paying attention, but I disagree that it's a bad thing. Ubuntu is migrating from .debs to snaps, so it makes sense that those become ever more prominant.

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Oh so that's still a thing that you need to set every file extensions and protocol separately to the other browser. Yeah that is stupid.

    And it only takes a minute on Ubuntu if you Know what you are doing. The regular user probably only see that their applications are slow to start and need to search the internet why, if they care at all.

    And why is that? Because Canonical doesn't tell you that you installed a snap, Microsoft is "honest" enough and tells you that they are shitty and want you to use Edge.

    [–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

    They technically do tell you, even in the graphical software store. And the speed difference between snaps and debs has been largely nullified by now.