It was time to update my laptop, and I already knew that the update will bring Snap, and installs the Snap Firefox version. Along with many known problems. Previously the laptop was on 20.04 LTS, but this version is about to loose support.
I ran through the upgrade, and then added an Ansible Playbook to handle the Firefox installation, remove the Snap version and install the PPA version. Most of my laptop configuration is handled using Ansible Playbooks.
Installed my new laptop, and everything seemed to work, out of the box. Almost everything.
The audio was quite annoying. First of all, every application got it’s own volume setting. In theory that is a nice idea, and you can control and manage the volume for every application separately. In practice, this is a nightmare: try changing the volume of an application which only once in a while sends a short notification. Or try changing the volume of the sound when you close the laptop lid. On top of that, the volume for applications like Chome and Firefox seem to be stuck at 100%. Every time I change the volume, the setting is back on “loud” the next time the browser plays something.
Der Rechner, der aktuell hinter mir steht, kam mit Windows Vista hier an. Ok, dachte ich, löscht du nicht gleich alles herunter sondern schaust mal, ob man damit was anfangen kann.