Debian is good if you don't want up to date browsers, the only shock i had when i tried Debian after this snap fiasco, ironically that's among things snap is trying to solve (quick updates)
>Debian is good if you don't want up to date browsers, the only shock i had when i tried Debian after this snap fiasco, ironically that's among things snap is trying to solve (quick updates)
You mean Debian stable. But you have a choice, you can select testing or unstable, which gives you newer software.
Debian Testing has a problem: It doesn't get security updates directly like stable/backports or unstable, it waits for a package to be promoted from unstable which can make it sometimes less up to date then stable... e.g. you can be stuck on an old firefox-esr with known vulnerabilities for a good while, especially if firefox-esr itself had a major version update which it does every year.
Also why would i use "Testing" or "Unstable" for my daily drive OS? Can't they make an exception to update Firefox+Chromium on Stable? It's really strange thing about Debian
Debian stable users who did want latest Firefox could download the binaries from Mozilla. Just unpack and run from e.g. home directory or perhaps copy to /opt/
Running an out-of-date browser is a security concern, is it not? Does Debian have a policy where they'll just backport the latest non-ESR from Unstable whenever a new 0-day is discovered? If they do and they're quick about it, I guess it's more a matter of personal preference.
Anyway, using Guix, Nix, or Flatpak is definitely a better idea than installing standalone debs for a different version of Debian than you're running, where it may be built against libraries that aren't part of your distro.
If you want to use the Debian package from Sid on Testing, better to rebuild it from source. openSUSE's public instance of the Open Build Service is a convenient way to manage keeping a repo for that up to date. But that definitely complicates system maintenance, too!
what? can you be more specific? I'm using debian as my daily desktop and firefox and I've never ever had issues with anything, especially the web browser. I'm also staying away from fancy new things like snap. I've always managed to get everything I wanted either using apt or dpkg.
Can you please give an example of an application you needed available only as a snap?
What version of Firefox do you have installed? The up to date version is 107, released almost half a month ago. If you're on 106 or earlier, you're not running an up to date browser.
Which might be fine! If that's the kind of system that works for you.
