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   LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 08:33:55 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   Discovered that my #Kubuntu laptop was still on version 20.04 LTS. I’m currently running the updater to bring it up to 22.04 LTS.
   
   I’m tempted to reinstall it with #Devuan, but I will wait to see what #Ubuntu has done to it first.
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     • Bob Jonkman
     @bobjonkman Yes, that was rather frustrating. I left to run errands and returned to find a pop-up informing me that my regular install of #Firefox would be converted to a snap install. Naturally, the installation stopped while it waited for me to acknowledge this.
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     • Bob Jonkman
     @bobjonkman I noticed that (at least the first time) #Firefox in a Snap has a long delay before it starts.
     
     No doubt that's time used in navigating through various security hoops or perhaps mounting a special filesystem, but for the most common software (name-brand web browsers), it is unnecessary and unwanted.
     
     I noticed that it did not put something like Node.js in a Snap. IMO, Node is the poster-child for Snap and Flatpak. It shouldn't be in the default install, it likely changes too fast for most distros' LTS model to handle well, and it is widely used by certain developers. If Snap / Flatpak / et cetera have some security hardening, Node (and its related 'npm' package manager) is exactly the place it is needed.