Canonical Makes More Snap Improvements Ahead Of Ubuntu 24.10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Makes More Snap Improvements Ahead Of Ubuntu 24.10

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu desktop provided an update around recent efforts on Ubuntu 24.10...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Better-Snaps

[geerge]

Bets on snaps removed by 26.04?

[AsciiWolf]

"inventing the wheel 10+ times"

[tabicat]

The best way to improve snap is to delete it. It's the first thing I do when I install Ubuntu anywhere.

[diegodamohill]

The discussion on this forum when canonical announces the migration to flatpak will be hilarious

[Artim]

The slides should be used for next Halloween...

[Artim]

The best way to improve snap is to delete it. It's the first thing I do when I install Ubuntu anywhere.

And don't forget

apt-mark hold snapd

Also, if you are going to remove about the only thing left that makes Ubuntu unique, why even bother with it and not something like Mint. Ubuntu based, snaps already nuked, less work.

[uid313]

Unfortunately I think Canonical have failed to get software vendors aboard Snap.

They got the OpenJS Foundation to publish Node.js which is great, Spotify, JetBrains, Nextcloud, Microsoft to publish VS Code, KDE to publish lots of apps, but where is Cockpit, Deno, Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Valkey?

The discussion on this forum when canonical announces the migration to flatpak will be hilarious

Snap does things that Flatpak don't.
Flatpak is desktop-centric so it is for desktop applications only. Snap works with daemons, subsystems, libraries, kernels, etc.

[ahrs]

Why isn't there a Flatpak Snap yet? Why can't you

snap install flatpak

and expect it to work? I'm being completely unironic by the way, it sounds like this should be possible since Snap wants to work for daemons and system software, etc.

[varikonniemi]

Now only if you could stop making a mount point for every fucking app which slows everything down!