[kwlug-disc] Zorin vs Mint

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Yes, Canonical sucks in this regard.
But there is an easy solution:

You add the Mozilla Team repo, and install Firefox normally like any Debian
package.

The instructions on Mozilla Team's Firefox ESR page
<https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa> has how to add the
repository.

I use the ESR version so I get less frequent updates, and less changes.

On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM Jason <jasonpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just tested this in a new Xubuntu VM to confirm:
>
> > You just do:
> >    sudo apt purge snapd
> > And it is gone forever.
>
> Now try installing firefox via apt.
> You'll find that it's not actually an apt package, but a wrapper for the
> snap version of firefox, which reinstalls snapd as a dependency.
>
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