Well, they say lots of impressive stuff. But the line between "We did great innovations but kept the good stuff" and "We screwed up the good stuff and kept the bad" is surprisingly fuzzy and difficult to find in this kind of game. We'll see how it actually works out . . . hoping for the best.

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Wow . . . nostalgia for times that never existed is pretty common, but you don't often see people explicitly saying that's what they're doing. :grin:

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crastinator-pro. Great name.

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@rhavenn Just to be clear, Mint is an Ubuntu derivative but it does not use Snaps. So these things don't necessarily go together.

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At the back of one of Jasper Fforde's "Thursday Next" books there is an ad that goes "Visit the People's Republic of Wales! Not always raining."
I hope your luck was good!

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Ah, Philadelphus, the tribulations of pitting a terrible pun vs. grammatical correctness . . . either way you lose!

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Jolly good! I wonder just how much improved that Wayland compatibility is. I mean, seems like it's pretty recently that Mint started working on Wayland stuff, so it might not be wise to expect perfection yet.

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I am somewhat left wondering, are we talking "very violent" as in, gets into bar fights? Or, "very violent" as in abusive husband? Somehow it makes a difference to me. Not that I play FPS anyway.

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I feel like it'd be neat if you could use gyro with that.

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For an ideologue, my outlook on Google vs Firefox is oddly nut-and-bolts. I use Chrome or, at home, Chromium, sometimes because these days Firefox just won't render some websites properly, or occasionally at all. But I use Firefox most of the time because I like the way a few of its features that I use a lot are done better than how they're done in Chrome (notably full screen), and lately because Chrome has gotten weird about remembering stuff, as in it doesn't. So I'll go to a website, enter a password, Chrome says "Do you want me to remember that password?" I say "sure!" . . . next time, I enter the password because Chrome has no idea, and it says "Do you want me to remember that password?" and I'm like "Dude, don't even bother." And at work, Firefox at different workstations pretty much remembers my bookmarks, tabs and stuff, while Chrome is all "I have never seen you before, including last time you were at this workstation when you set up a few bookmarks". It's OK at my own personal desk, but when I'm at the library front counter I just try to avoid even opening up Chrome. Now probably that's just because Chrome wants me to put all that information in their cloud so they can use it against me synch up my stuff at every computer I go to, and I haven't, and Google is downplaying other ways for the browser to keep track, so if I played along it would work better. But I don't want that information in their cloud (and I don't want the exact same bookmarks at work and at home, either).

So long story short, I would prefer if Firefox didn't die because I want to keep using it, totally aside from my suspicions about monopolies and Google hoovering up my info.

This particular announcement, though, seems OK. And if it's really because Google is getting the screws turned on them by antitrust enforcement, that's great!.

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