Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 7, 2024
People are always joking about windows having that "windows is not activated, plz fix" watermark that's always showing up on top of displays in public, but these days Linux has that sort of annoying watermark nonsense too, it's just phrased a little different.
Show threadaburka 🫣Oct 7, 2024

@foone all modern operating systems: okay so we manage shared resources and a "file system" that all programs can access in order to interoperate
Linux: also you can update without rebooting

snapd: ... and I took that personally

Show threadCwd o Seiber-ysbridionOct 11, 2024
@aburka @foone I mean even if you upgraded firefox yoy wouldn't get the new version without restarting the process — snapd trying to force that is the problem here. As i understand it it's something that developers can set? At the same time, shitty of the snap developers to add that lol
Show threadPhillip K NameOct 21, 2024

@alexandria deb firefox currently soft-forces restarts after an update too.

After a while, new tabs crash and eventually it prompts you to restart to keep using it.

As well as pinning the non-snap version of firefox, I've taken to disabling auto updates for it on my machine. I just have to download those updates myself whenever I restart firefox. (basically whenever it crashes)

Show threadCwd o Seiber-ysbridion
@griibor huh, ive been using flatpak firefox on steam deck and because i basically never update flatpaks its never forced a restart
Oct 21, 2024 at 5:02pmWeb