Article: Firefox providing .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu users.

[Bret Busby]

On 1/2/24 01:05, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 15:49, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> 
>> I appear to have misconstrued one of your articles that you had
>> published about Linux Mint, where, from memory, you had said something
>> like the use of snap in Ubuntu, has been replaced with the use of
>> flatpack in Linux Mint.
> 
> It has. But do not read more into that than it says.
> 
> "Flatpak replaces Snap" means just that: no Snap, Flatpak support preinstalled.
> 
> It does not mean "all snaps are replaced by flatpaks". I would say that if so.
> 
> Mint is justifiably proud of its native Firefox package. It eliminates
> a bunch of issues. There is an eternal problem with security: things
> that make systems more secure inevitably break stuff and the tradeoff
> is unavoidable.
> 
> Mint, like several other Ubuntu derivatives with Flatpak, comes with
> no flatpaks installed at all.
> 
> Zorin OS is the big exception here and it comes with some 15-20GB of
> Flatpak apps by default. I have criticised this in reviews before.
> 
>> It goes back to the article that you had published, that caused me to
>> trial Linux Mint. Which particular article, that involved, I do not know.
> 
> Glad to hear that.
> 
>> Then, whilst I may have misconstrued that, my contention that I believed
>> that it was not that the .deb version of Firefox, was causing the
>> problem of "YT videos now are all blocked ", but, more likely, that it
>> was something to do with the particular installation of Wade Smart
>> (which, now, cannot be checked, as that installation was deleted, rather
>> than repaired, resulting in the fault being unresolved), seems to be
>> validated.
> 
> I barely use YT and try to avoid video content. I have nothing useful
> to offer on this.
> \
I have found youtube to have some interesting content.

As an example, with (I believe) you living in one of the countries of 
the england federation, the battery electric vehicles (BEV's) there, 
from the video reviews that I have seen, include some (to me) quite 
attractive models, with good reviews, making them worth buying.

Unfortunately, Australia is a dumping ground for inferior products, and, 
we are treated with contempt by the local representatives for BEV 
manufacturers ("Australians are sub-human, and we will not allow them to 
buy station wagons or any worthwhile motor vehicles"), and, ICE vehicle 
manufacturers know that they can dump reject  vehicles in Australia, 
because the Australian government refuses to implement vehicle emissions 
regulations, which is consistent with the reference to Australia, as New 
North Korea.

Also, youtube has interesting music videos (I have seen one of Judith 
Durham, singing, when she was about 18 years old, before The Seekers, 
and, one of Julie Andrews, age 13 singing for King George 6 of england, 
in 1948, and Steeleye Span singing Gaudete (1974), and other renditions 
of Gaudete, and, the Mediaeval Baebes singing Veni Veni Bella, and other 
songs, and, songs like the Camp Granada Song, Star Trekkin, Bobby 
Pickett performing The Monster Mash, the famous song Bohemian Catsody, 
and, the duo (Santo & Johnny, 1959) playing Sleepwalk). And, to watch 
Liberace playing The Sabre Dance, by Khachaturian, is amazing.

And, the TEDx videos are interesting.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
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