Comment by AnthonyMouse
1 year ago
So:
# apt install librewolf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package librewolf
If the thing that doesn't suck isn't the thing that comes with the OS, it's time to fix the OS.
Also, that feature should exist. The next time I see a story about MS training ChatGPT on your nude selfies, I want to be able to show people the big red switch that says "All Telemetry: OFF" as an example of something Microsoft will never give them.
But you first have to provide it in order to show to them that you provide it.
That is a distro problem not a software problem. Librewolf is available as a flatpak meaning on every Linux desktop distro.
https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.librewolf-community
If you want to be pendantic again:
apt -y install flatpak && flatpak install io.gitlab.librewolf-community
It is possible to improve the distribution and that is the thing being requested.
If you want to improve the distro go ahead. But it's fantasy that every distro will support every software => flatpak
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Apt is basically just a bad package manager:
But I do agree, it's hard to find these alternatives, and have them be "just works". Librewolf still sometimes have weird issues (for good reasons!), but it means I don't recommend it to "normies". I just tell them to use firefox and most importantly adblock, giving up ads is a huge ROI both in terms of quality of life and data privacy. Everything else is almost marginal in comparison.
Apt being a bad package manager is not related to the selection of packages that Debian ships or doesn't.