oh god i just updated to ubuntu 22.04 and it’s a been a nightmare. i use firefox, and ubuntu want me to use the snap-based distribution now. it didn’t tell me that’d be a thing, so i was surprised when opening firefox that:

* it took ages to start up cold

* my window theming was ignored

* my bookmarks and extensions were just.. gone

* this was marketed as a benefit to me

infuriated, i added the mozilla PPA, and told apt to get firefox from there. that was fine, nothing was deleted, and it all worked again.

imagine my next surprise, when i go to use it the next day, and the snap variant was back! running ‘apt dist-upgrade’ fixed it again, but this happens every day. something is silently re-installing firefox every night, and i have run out of energy to find it and stop it.

when i next have the time, i’m dropping this distro and switching to arch or even perhaps gentoo again.

but hey, at least with linux i have the choice :)

oh, and whilst i’m here, wayland is still - unfortunately - not desktop ready.