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khorovodoved, to linux in Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship

Does it have a separate add-on store?

khorovodoved, to linux in Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship

If Mozilla gets blocked, people would just install some other browser (probably, something from Russia). I do not see how this helps anyone but the government itself. And departure of hundreds (if not thousands) of western companies did nothing to the Russian government, some problems with a browser with almost non-existent userbase would have the same effect. It should be quite clear by now that such tactic simply does not work.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Well, I know it used to be available and officially supported through available installation script. I do not have bazzite installed right now and their website does not have a proper documentation, so I can not check if it is available now.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Fortunately, it does not usually cause high load, but it still exists. The only thing I can recomend here is to always check if the dependencies of any package you install in container require to run in the background and avoid those which do.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

The lag would be noticeable when you launch Firefox with stopped container (for example after reboot or manual stop).

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Toolbox is effectively the same thing as distrobox. It is a linux distro inside docker-like container. They even use the same images.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Maybe, I do not use bazzite and cannot check. But it used to be a feature. You can, of cause, start distrobox at startup, but literally running almost two operation systems might not be the best for performance and RAM usage.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

You don’t quite understand me, it seems. I do not mean nixos distro. Nix is already available inside Bazzite as an additional package manager.

khorovodoved, (edited ) to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Distrobox will introduce a startup lag of it’s own. I would rather recommend (seriously this time) something like nix (it is officially supported for your distro) or junest.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Sorry for giving a rather useless advice. Of cause, you know about native packages, but since you are asking about flatpak, you, probably, have a reason to chose it. So, my original message was mostly intended as a joke, for which I am sorry.

khorovodoved, to linux in Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start

Native packages? Sorry.

khorovodoved, to linux in Stay on Fedora or Switch to Void?

Well, it’s up to you to decide if advantages of a distro are more significant to you then disadvantages.

I would argue that the best part about void is not actually runit and xbps, but minimalist dependencies.

I wouldn’t care about unofficial status of hyprland package, since it is unofficial in most distros.

And about the lack of some software. There is a thing, called xdeb, that allows you to automatically convert any deb package to xbps package (with correct dependencies). You can even automatically install them from any deb repository via xdeb-install tool.

khorovodoved, to linux in What are the major components of any Linux distribution?

Most C binaries usually do not contain everything needed for their execution. It would make them too platform-specific. What most c programs do is that they use standard c library from platform for low-level things and communication with the system like memory allocation or stdin/stdout things, for example.

khorovodoved, to linux in What are the major components of any Linux distribution?

I would say, that from most important to least important components are:

  1. kernel
  2. init system (systemd, openrc, runit…)
  3. C library (glibc, musl)
  4. filesystem
  5. coreutils
  6. shell
  7. bootloader
  8. package manager
  9. x11/Wayland (if any)
  10. sound system (if any)
  11. WM (if any)
  12. DE (if any)
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