Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu (www.theregister.com)

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Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

Zorin OS is Ubuntu based. I wonder if, like Mint, they prioritize apt and flatpaks over snaps when using apt.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 5 months ago

They do

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Oh ok that's good!

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