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Thankfully I missed the amazon ads.
If only snap worked as well as flatpak. Not one snap package I have installed (Kubuntu) has worked, even the snap FF went wonky within 3 days of a fresh distro install. Flatpak works better as I have not had a single issue with any flatpak install (I refuse to look at how big these files are) I just like the idea of sand boxing all these apps. As of now my preferred install is 1. flatpak, 2. .deb, 3. compile the bitch from source, the only one I have had to compile was the "Drivers" for my and my gfs G13 keyboards so we could assign the keys we want.