Every time I upgrade my Ubuntu system, I must remove the snap package of firefox, then use apt install to downgrade the package:
Unpacking firefox (130.0~build2) over (1:1snap1-0ubuntu5) ...
Even with the higher priority of the apt builds.
Every, single, time. So annoying.
@jriou Had a Playbook do that for me. But in the end this - and the trouble with Snap packages and access to the filesystem - was the reason why I changed distribution.
@ascherbaum What distribution do you use now?
@jriou Servers are back to Debian, laptops are in Manjaro now.
@ascherbaum My servers are also on Debian. Manjaro is based on Arch. It's been a long time since I've used this distribution, like more than 10 years. Rolling releases have the reputation to break if you don't update them very often. It happened to me with Gentoo and Arch. Is it still true?
@jriou @ascherbaum openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS, have been very reliable for me. Been running Tumbleweed on all my laptops and desktops since around 2015, and not had any significant issues.
The BTRFS based snapshotting and rollback, is super handy and taken a lot of the risks out of a rolling release.
@intrbiz @jriou Right now I need to get my hands on each laptop for an extended amount of time while the owner is around (decrypting disks, running full backups, running the upgrade). That's usually 1-2 days where the laptop can't be used. Not an ideal situation with Ubuntu. Plus all the things which do not work after a major upgrade, and all the Playbooks I need to fix.
So far with Manjaro it's been a smooth ride. Had to rewrite all Playbooks for the first laptop, but after that ...