Query about parasitic firefox file

[Liam Proven]

On 8 March 2018 at 18:56, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Doesn't matter.  It would take to it exactly as well if it went:

OK.

> This is true (though notice that I mentioned "shared data partitions" as
> something to keep outside LVM, so I did acknowledge that even if not
> very clearly).

Fair point.

> Fair enough.  Apologies for pitching too high.

Well said. Thanks, BTW, not only for your grace, but for the way that
you often take me down a peg when I need it. ;-)

> That was step 0.  This is a good thing to fix no matter what, before
> *any* fiddling around with partition layout.

OK. Good point and very true.

> I disagree with this part of your message: if you ask the Ubuntu
> installer to do full-disk encryption, you'll get LVM as a consequence of
> that, and that's an option packaged and presented in the desktop
> installer which I don't think requires a high level of technical skill.
> (I suspect that many people who have selected that option haven't even
> noticed that LVM is involved.)

All right, fair call.

Fedora defaults to it. (I personally think that's insane, but then,
Fedora expressly does not support dual-booting with other Linuxes or
non-Linux OSes, only a single copy of Windows. This is one of the
things I complained about that got me fired from Dead Rat.)

I've only tried full-disk encryption on Fedora. (It was a company requirement.)

It was a total nightmare and took me about 3-4 reformats to get right
and working. That is as sole OS.

Then I found GNOME 3 unusable and had to do it again to switch to
Xfce. It's not as pretty, but it works.

I did not enjoy my Fedora experience. I am not keen to repeat any
element of it on Ubuntu. *Or* on openSUSE. ;-)

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