[xubuntu-users] gimp-helping "not available" ...in Firefox 104.0.1

[Ralf Mardorf]

> On 5. Sep 2022, at 09:35, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 5 September 2022 06:07:27 Michael Hoehne <mih-hoehne at web.de> wrote:
> 
>> Snaps are not allowed to use "/tmp" because of security issues.
> 
> 
> Does this mean (for example) that I would not be able to Save As... to /tmp (eg an image).
> 
> If so, I'm going to need a snap-free distribution. That kind of restriction is fine for the amateur or novice, but has no place in the ecology otherwise. 

Hi,

the good news, you can still save an image to /tmp, maybe not an image shown by firefox, but by any app that isn’t a snap.

The bad news, outside of the Ubuntu flavour universe snaps aren’t accepted, due to the bad design. Alternatives such as flatpak are at least a little bit tolerated. That snaps are advertised to be supported by other distros is a blatant lie. The snap infrastructure might be available by other distros, but snaps are usually unwanted.

https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2022-September/030839.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/2022-September/012659.html

There are countless other issues caused by flatpak and Co., but especially by snaps. To my knowledge it’s the worst of all.

I need a snap free distribution, not because I care about the tmp issue, just because I want a real long term support distribution without regular packages that are replaced by a snap, flatpak or Co. thingy. IOW I don’t know what distro to use for this purpose in the future, but it will not be Unbuntu with snaps.

Regards,
Ralf
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