2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He’s running Windows 7 right now, so I’ll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

  • @[email protected]
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    07 months ago

    apt uses debians packages and debian repositories. Unless they recently created an alias or something, it should install debian packaged version!

    • @CameronDev
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      37 months ago

      I was under the impression the latest “firefox” package was a kind of “meta” package that caused the snap to get installed instead.

      Certainly seems that way according to: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox

      Note that 22.04 is described as a transitional package to snap.

      Apt does use debian packages (.deb files), but on ubuntu it uses ubuntus repositories.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      17 months ago

      They’ve introduced a couple of redirects so that the snap version gets installed.