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Makes sense to me, but I'd be much more excited to go back to not having the snap directory shoved in my face.
I left Ubuntu because of snap - and I don't see myself going back. It's funny, I feel like eventually every distribution has to do something to irritate long-term users, but endear themselves to others. It's part of a weird growth phase.
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I left Ubuntu because of snap - and I don't see myself going back. It's funny, I feel like eventually every distribution has to do something to irritate long-term users, but endear themselves to others. It's part of a weird growth phase.
What distro do you use now?
To me, user accounts have always seemed like the more reasonable approach to sandboxing vs. cloning the universe to run a single program in a container. Most of my systems have a user for myself, and one or two other users like `sketchy` or `test` or something for programs that I trust enough to run, but don't trust enough to not fuck up my home directory in some way (including modifying startup scripts, which IMHO s…
I run such less trusted programs on other machines . The privilege elevation attack surface is just too big on a normal Linux system. That's why I think intra-user isolation is better. I would feel so much better if my browser could just access its settings, the download directory, and read access outside my home directory (for libs and such).
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo flatpak install -y flathub org.chromium.Chromium
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Just create second account. This feature you describe is needed like to one in a million users.
True, Not many actually need it. A 2nd account with all the disk space would raise some questions Then again checks foil hat, that’s what you want us to believe ;)
Ubuntu should develop shadow accounts - the user will log in to a completely different account of the same login depending on password. That is if someone forces you to log in you could use different password and pretend it is your stuff.
Just create second account. This feature you describe is needed like to one in a million users.
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" Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I respectfully disagree this time. This is neither "website formatting", nor "back-button breakage", i.e. generally not a presentation issue. This is the Ubuntu website being deliberately annoying about their tracking choices in the hopes that you just click "Accept all" and be done with it. And I really don't know why Ubuntu specifically needs tracking when you just want to read an article on their blog, and persona…
The whole reason for having the exception to that rule, being that the author is active in the thread, is that you can address the feedback to them and they can possibly do something about it.
Outside of that, you're better off sending an email or tweet to the company, rather than venting here.
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What distro do you use now?
Currently I'm on Manjaro. I went through my post-Ubuntu cycle and looked into Gentoo, Mint, Solus, and FreeBSD again. Basically Manjaro made running Arch painless. I'm happy enough for now.
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Just create second account. This feature you describe is needed like to one in a million users.
Second account will have a different login so when referenced with other metadata it may tell that it is not in fact your main account. Not sure why people are opposed to measures that increase privacy?
Because small increased of privacy should not result in huge usability decrease.