What happened to my machine?

[Zak Smith]

Uninstall firefox and then install it how you would on debian. Proceed to upgrade it when you want. 

I just installed ubuntu 22 on a new laptop as a test and this snap stuff is crazy. Although native ZFS is cool.  

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> On Jun 9, 2022, at 8:55 PM, Brian Sturgill <bsturgill at ataman.com> wrote:
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> 
> Guess what just came back:
> 
> So what do I do now?... This is clearly going to drive me nuts.
> 
> Brian
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:01 PM Brian Sturgill <bsturgill at ataman.com> wrote:
>> For years I thought I was running Linux... but I just ran "df" and clearly someone has replaced Linux with another operating system!
>> 
>> brian at dobby:~$ df
>> Filesystem                 1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> udev                         1927400        0   1927400   0% /dev
>> tmpfs                         394484     1368    393116   1% /run
>> /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root 110774660 13632712  91471856  13% /
>> tmpfs                        1972412        0   1972412   0% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs                           5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
>> tmpfs                        1972412        0   1972412   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> /dev/loop0                     56960    56960         0 100% /snap/core18/2344
>> /dev/loop3                     63488    63488         0 100% /snap/core20/1518
>> /dev/loop2                     56960    56960         0 100% /snap/core18/2409
>> /dev/loop1                     63488    63488         0 100% /snap/core20/1494
>> /dev/loop5                     69632    69632         0 100% /snap/lxd/22526
>> /dev/loop4                     69504    69504         0 100% /snap/lxd/22753
>> /dev/loop6                     48128    48128         0 100% /snap/snapd/16010
>> /dev/loop7                     45824    45824         0 100% /snap/snapd/15904
>> tmpfs                         394480        0    394480   0% /run/user/1000
>> 
>> Seriously, what kind of device is /dev/mapper/dobby--vg-root?
>> 
>> Just last week, it was constantly badgering me to exit Firefox to upgrade its snap.
>> It said I had to do so within 12 days if I wanted to "avoid disruption".
>> Sounded like some kind of organized crime racket.
>> I exited, waited, it complained again, (repeat 5 times)... finally told snap to upgrade it
>> manually, but cannot remember what worked... I know it took like half an hour to figure it out.
>> Snap upgrade is too easy of course.
>> 
>> Really, I get less crap than this from Windows or MacOS.
>> 
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>> Brian
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> Brian
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