Yes, but it doesn’t let you conveniently see what attachments are… still attached, how big they are and offer you a convenient way to archive/delete them.
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You might like this for help with MMS cleanup: Workarounds for batch-saving pictures from Chatty, 2 different ones
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ruins df for one, fortunately it is not difficult to surgically remove. https://www.baeldung.com/linux/snap-remove-disable A word to the wise though be sure to set up the official firefox PPA repo on Ubuntu based distros, that is how they try to keep you in by a small remnant of Snap in apt constantly deleting Firefox if it’s install is still tied to the Ubuntu repos; for chromium do yourself a favor and use ungoogled-chromium if you must. Both Firefox and Chromium on Ubuntu now have snap system install as deps to install them as a snaps.
It is a mess, but we seem to have settled on it for mobile, Flathub is the closest we have to an fdroid like experience I guess, and it is not a giant mess vomiting filesystems for every installed app like Snap. Not everyone is able to get the latest(or an old one) app to compile so at least we can span mobile OSs.
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Very nice, I do like.
When i was manually cleaning MMS, I’d always know if a file was a picture because Dolphin (I was viewing over SSH on Linux Mint) “just knew” and showed the thumbnails correctly without extension. These scripts are very helpful, though. It’s nice to get a copy of everything that’s not buried Inception-style and the MMS dirs can be wholesale deleted after the script is run. That was part of my problem before – after deleting chats via the GUI, I found those old stale attachments still there taking up space.
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No it doesn’t. df still works.
- And if you want to skip the squashfs mounts you can always alias to “df -x squashfx”.
- Same with lsblk. lsblk -e 7 will not show the loop devices.
I wouldn’t use the mozilla PPA repo. That will require extra work and may break when you do-release-upgrade. Mozilla, themselves, recommends that if you don’t want to use snap, you can add Mozilla’s repo. I would probably use the flatpak. However, one should realize that the firefox flatpak removes the per-tab-isolation because that isolation requires privileges that the flatpak can not get.
You talk like it’s some sort of plot by a nefarious gang. The fact of the matter is that there is a “firefox deb” in Ubuntu. That particular deb is titled as a “transition firefox to snap” … and the whole point of that is to manage the transition of firefox from a traditional package to a snap package. It takes advantage of deb/dpkg/apt’s “pre-install scripting” to perform the transition. It’s necessary for two reasons: 1. It’s the best way to transition bookmarks/passwords/etc. 2. firefox was part of the default install on desktop Ubuntu, so it needs to do that transition.
I’ve used snaps for a while now. I was a bit nervous at first, but they’ve worked out really well for me. I use lxd/lxc a lot and it’s very nice that snaps work inside lxc containers when the same can’t be said for flatpaks … which is important if you are using snaps/flatpaks from authors that you don’t trust.
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