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Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sirsquid@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Plz no snap

[–] Sh1nyM3t4l4ss@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a feeling they're slowly but steadily moving from deb packages to snap-only completely. Because unlike what Mark Shuttleworth said when they abandoned Unity, Canonical doesn't let their users decide which technologies should catch on. The Linux desktop as a whole is moving to a Flatpak future for desktop apps, yet Ubuntu keeps pushing Snaps down their users throats whether they want it or not and sort of "fight" Flatpak on Ubuntu spins.

I get it, Snaps are more versatile than Flatpak, you could make everything on the system a snap (can't ship a DE or the kernel as a Flatpak now, can you) and CLI programs as Flatpaks also suck compared to snap (and distro packages obviously), but for desktop apps Flatpaks are just the obvious choice and the Linux community has shown that.

I'm waiting for the day where you can install Flatpak as a snap on Ubuntu lmao

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

The ultimate paradox. I hate when Ubuntu automatically searches for a snap package whenever I use APT

[–] motorheadkusanagi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

seriously it is so stupid

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[–] Veraxus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the only reason I stopped using Ubuntu and switched to plain old Debian + GNOME. I want nothing more to do with snap.

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

I think that debian is a very valid choice for everyone, even for newbies who want to move to something freer than Ubuntu