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Outdated snap packages - Issues Canonical Needs to Address Before Releasing an "All Snap" Desktop (popey.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004.

If the “All Snap” or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store.

As I mentioned, there’s around five thousand snaps in the store. Hundreds of them haven’t been touched in years. Some developers have just abandoned their packages.

I want to see this situation improve. In general, Canonical should incentivise the promotion of applications and dis-incentivise letting applications languish.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year.

I wonder where all the users are gonna migrate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bingo.

Near 20 year Ubuntu user here, I'm on the lookout for something different. Probably debian, but I want KDE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can use KDE on Debian, it's a checkbox in the installer or you can use a Calamares live iso with KDE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah that is one of my favorite parts of Debian. You can just pick a DE in the installer or even use no DE in the install and apt install one. I don’t understand why so many distros try to lock you in to one DE.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I bounced to mint cinnamon as soon as this was announced. I miiggghhhtttt switch to arch as cinnamon hasn't quite made me feel like I'm able to do what I want, but I plan to at least try LMDE before that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

NixOS. I'm going to migrate to NixOS by then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I migrated recently and am pretty happy with it. Once you have everything in configuration.nix setup, its like you dont even need to think about your system anymore if you dont want to. Everything just works and will continue to work and can even easily be replicated onto another system in case of hardware failure. Just make sure to keep your /home on a seperate nas/raid/drive and a backup of your configuration and hardware.nix and your golden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yea, something like that. Using it on my laptop already. configuration.nix for system plus home-manager for user stuff. Will move the desktop soon-ish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hopefully Debian or LMDE. Canonical is becoming a mini-Microsoft.