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What’s new in security for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
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no closed down walled garden will ever be interesting or versatile
That's part of what I mean. Snap could be so much more interesting and useful if not for Canonical doing stuff like only allowing one store and slacking on proper support for non-AppArmor distros.
One of the more bizarre experiences I've had is that a Canonical employee packaged a version of a Minecraft launcher. It was absolutely garbage, didn't even start. The first thing that comes to mind is that snap is just garbage. But for fun, I made my own package of it, and it just worked perfectly. Which just leaves me the question of why a Canonical employee who works on snap can't create a good snap package.
There's also the weird fact that Ubuntu dropped the ball with its core24 runtime. For some reason, Canonical's own snaps stuck to core22 up until this month. Like, why wouldn't they upgrade to their latest runtime? If there was an issue with it, why has it been broken for 2 years? Doesn't inspire trust.