You don’t need a car in Singapore. Very good public transport and affordable taxis.

Yea, not with firefox, at least not without switching to some third party repo.

You can find answer to most of the questions in google. And there are always people who are willing to help in the internets.

Kind of like flatpacks but it’s done with symlinks and fancy changes to the build systems. I think it fits better for the developer environment.

Biggest package repository, a very strange package manager that lets you reproduce exact environment for any package. But also takes a bunch of time to understand and you basically have to learn a whole new programming language to use it if you don’t want to copy-paste examples.

What PPA was it? I’m using this one and it seems to be still native. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt

That said - I’m experimenting with NixOS to move to.

systemd had problems when it was first introduced, but it works much better now and it’s not going away. I would suggest to revisit it again.

I’m using tiling WM mostly to have shortcuts and more controls about window switching but I rarely have multiple windows visible at once, but when I do - tiling is more convenient. When it doesn’t - you can always make that particular window floating.

• xmonad - tiling wm because I’m too lazy to place windows by hands
• firefox - since a lot of things I’m working with is web based and I like my adblock and don’t want google spying on me
• urxvt - a terminal that is fast enough for most applications yet doesn’t use as much memory as fancier ones
• tmux - a terminal multiplexer - terminal tabs are not as nice plus lets you leave stuff running remotely
• neovim - I need a text editor and it works great for that purposes covering all my needs

With Ubuntu Core, the kernel is installed as a snap rather than being built into the base system.

snaps might be a bright future, but I imagine it’s going to be a rocky transition. I’ll wait it out on some other distribution…

Moving to a different distro :) Experimenting with nixos right now, already got native Firefox working :)

It’s strange that they suggest Ubuntu rather than https://uwuntuos.site/

Too many ads and bad UX? Right. This article is a great example for both: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras/110846684099110476

Urxvt, slight colorscheme changes to make background dark gray and foreground - light gray. alacritty might be “blazingly fast” but in my experience if terminal is slowing you down - you are doing something wrong. On the other hand urxvt uses 20 times less memory.

Did twitter consider to affiliate with @musicfan, @musicmusic, @music123, or @musiclover instead?

Do they agree on the definition of the false information?

Absolutely, trying out a replacement as we speak :)

Well, at first all I had to do was to uninstall snapd and related packages. Next LTS release I had to uninstall snapd and install Firefox from Ubuntu repo. Next LTS release I had to uninstall snapd and install Firefox from a third party repo. According to news Ubuntu is planning to introduce a snap store without support for native debs, so I see a pattern here. I know that if I decide to stay until the next LTS I’ll probably will be able to stay snap free, but is Ship of Theseus is still Ubuntu at this point?

Using snap is your own fault.

Ubuntu forces you to use them more and more.

Proprietary nvidia driver consists of (at least until recently) from two parts - closed userspace part and open kernel part. Those parts talk to each other with some protocol they change every once in a while and the only combination they support is that kernel module and userspace part must be of the same version. When they mismatch you still get video, you don’t get acceleration. And reboot fixes the problem.