Noble_current_xfce, * Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc.

[EDM]

This post is not a criticism but I suppose that noobs with experience with linux since 2006 like myself might get caught out by:

* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc.

 

This Ubuntu based "noble" distro DOES NOT have any browser installed as part of the image. 

Since I rarely use snaps, as they are controversial, I did not understand at first that "synaptic" will not install Firefox or Chromium. In fact you have to use the CLI terminal to manually install Firefox or Chromium with the "snap" program.

 

May I suggest that the webpage description be amended to:

"* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as, Office tools etc. Chromium and/or Firefox browsers must be manually installed with snap and are not part of the image"

or something to that effect.

 

I am now trying to see if I can painlessly find/use a non snap solution to have Firefox-esr or Chromium. Loading of Firefox via snap is slow but does stay updated, but this can cause other problems.

 

Thanks for your help and happy holidays!

[usual user]

Well, I can't complain about the up-to-dateness of my natively installed browser.

 

 

 

Damn, everything is out of date again- It's urgently time for the latest updates for my distribution to become available.

Edited 3 hours ago by usual user