I rather feel like we are making things more complicated than needed in recent years. In ubuntu 14.04 8 years ago firefox plus treestyle tabs and adblock plus m

I rather feel like we are making things more complicated than needed in recent years. In ubuntu 14.04 8 years ago firefox plus treestyle tabs and adblock plus made a nice combination. Firefox was installed by default and one could go to the addons menu and in about 30 seconds install those 2 and have right off a decent experience. Unattended-upgrades wasn't part of the default ubuntu install and everything updated at once. When you told it to. Now to have the same experience you need to understand the difference between snap and apt and why you would want one vs the other. You need to understand ppas. You need to know how ppas interact with unattended-upgrades. You need to understand config files are in etc. You need to know how config file directories work. You need to know how to pin a package. It appears but I'm not sure that you need to know the difference between purge and remove. Now if you want treestyle tabs to actually hide top tabs you need to figure out the weirdness of firefox profile dirs where its in ~/.mozilla/firefox/my-cat-walked-right-over-my-keyboard-and-had-a-fight-with-my-other-cat. Create a folder called chrome and inside it userChrome.css and either understand css or just blindly paste in some css someone else provided. Then you need to open up about:config and change an arcane setting to make the above actually do something. 90% of that is actually useful understandings. Hey its not like css is only for themeing firefox and knowing about:config exists exposes useless things out of scope of normal configuration but in no universe should I wish my browser wasn't half as fast as windows and I wish tabs were on the side lead to that exiting 3 hour tour 1. 1 https://youtu.be/cfR7qxtgCgY https://youtu.be/cfR7qxtgCgY We can start having the professor run this ship instead of Gilligan any time now. Firefox should be a Debian package by default. Installing a package from a PPA shouldn't bear on how its updated. Installing should be via a singular cli. If snap is to be integrated it should be an argument to that cli even if its not apt. Explicitly telling it to install the deb version should simply cause it to prefer that version thereafter. Absolutely none of this should require touching a config file in /etc. On the firefox they should have found a way for an addon to hide the tabs a while ago and if the user explicitly drops a css file in their profile directory it shouldn't be gated by a setting in about:config. Meanwhile your firefox profile should be something like ~/.config/firefox/default-profile What the hell is wrong with people.