What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.
I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.
I’m so done with Ubuntu.
Question: Is this going to also apply to Linux Mint and other Ubuntu/Debian cousin distros?
Worth mentioning that Mint has LMDE (Linux Mint - Debian Edition), a version of Mint based on Debian instead of Ubuntu as a fallback for if/when Canonical starts doing stupid shit
The mint folks are gonna eye this whole development carefully. Personally I’d be more surprised if ten years from now Mint was still based on Ubuntu instead of Debian.