There are PPD alternatives for those (at least Firefox, I haven't tried the others). But yeah, it's starting to look like it's time to think about jumping ship

There are PPD alternatives for those (at least Firefox, I haven't tried the others). But yeah, it's starting to look like it's time to think about jumping ship to something else entirely. I'm thinking Manjaro; I want a distro that's serious about KDE (currently using Kubuntu) and there aren't many of those these days.