[xubuntu-users] gimp-helping "not available" ...in Firefox 104.0.1

[Peter Flynn]

On 05/09/2022 10:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> the good news, you can still save an image to /tmp, maybe not an image 
> shown by firefox, but by any app that isn’t a snap.

The really good news is actually that I junked FF years ago anyway.
But not being able to save to /tmp is a killer, so snaps are out.

> The bad news, outside of the Ubuntu flavour universe snaps aren’t 
> accepted, due to the bad design.

Fine by me.

> Alternatives such as flatpak are at least a little bit tolerated.

I've heard of it but never seen or used it.

> I need a snap free distribution, not because I care about the tmp
> issue, just because I want a real long term support distribution
> without regular packages that are replaced by a snap, flatpak or Co.
> thingy. IOW I don’t know what distro to use for this purpose in the
> future, but it will not be Ubuntu with snaps.

I'll be right behind you.

Peter