pancomido [he/him]
I went on a jungle trip once and tried explaining how mad the 2m long (!) giant river otters are to my guide.
“Imagine if I told you that on the other side of the planet there are dogs that are 3m long!!!”
He didn’t quite get how astounded I was haha. The squeaky sounds giant river otters make to scare you off are something else.
Yes, and I understand the concern. However, we’re talking about beginners here. I think that a beginner will typically care more about stability and ease of troubleshooting rather than the politics of snaps vs flatpak vs deb vs appimages vs…
A new ubuntu may eventually care to learn about the differences between packages, and may end up changing distro because of that. But until they reach that confortable stage I think that prioritizing convenience, app availability, and ease of troubleshooting is more important for a new user than getting into package politics.
Fair enough, and I’m sure that it does work right away. I just think that in the linux world so many people are keen to flex their independence and therefore don’t recommend Ubuntu cos it’s “uncool”. Beginner linux users will then try another distro and will end up with these mad problems that are hard to troubleshoot.
I use Ubuntu because of the so-called “network effect”. If I have some problem, odds are some other poor bugger will have had the problem beforehand and there will be some guide or forum post somewhere helping me to solve it. Oh, and I haven’t had a game-changing error in Ubuntu for years now. It Just Works (for me).
Anyway, stay positive and I hope you fix your problem. At the very least you’ll learn something new about Linux, I’m sure. Good luck!
…embarrassingly enough, I hadn’t considered that!
Since installing the addon months ago, I’ve slowly gotten used to what I suppose is a cookie-free existence - the same as deleting cookies when exiting firefox, yes. However, using this addon still keeps websites isolated from one another during the browsing. For instance, I can have one tab with youtube video A open, and another with youtube video B open, and youtube have no way of knowing that the same user is watching /both/ videos A and B.
With “delete cookies when exiting” and no addon installed, there can be unwanted cookie-sharing from site to site during the browsing, right? (even cross-sites, right? some sites track you across pages, like the facebook invisible pixel)
You’ve made me think. Perhaps I should just block cookies entirely? (except for a select few websites where I might want them stored, such as hexbear for instance) Thanks for your input.
From what I can gather, by default, Temporary Containers self-destruct when you close the tab. MACs keep the cookies in each container.
Temporary Containers is very hands off once installed and automatic mode enabled. MAC needs more user input. “Open in personal, open in work, open in shopping”