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A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

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[-] ReverseModule@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu and Snaps are the cancer of the Linux world. :)

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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, nah, that's a dealbreaker for me. I'm back to LMDE when this happens.

I don't mind having snaps available but I'd avoid using them whenever possible. They're larger than necessary, slower than necessary, and I trust software checked by its original devs plus distro maintainers more than software checked by the devs alone.

[-] CassiniWarden@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using more and more flatpaks lately on arch and fedora based distros, i have no idea how snaps compare but seems similar? Seems an odd push from Ubuntu, but could make more sense than deb packages for non techy users perhaps?

[-] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my experience, performance of snap apps is just abhorrent. The consume a huge amount of disk space and, whether it's due to that or not, they have extremely long load times.

Principles aside, this just makes them unusable for me. I use flatpak when there's no other option, but strive to use deb either natively or through PPA.

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[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly not sure why it matters, provided the store is full. Both are similar to end users

[-] nani8ot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I would have like Ubuntu to come with flatpak, but snap exists for longer than flatpak and has additional use cases. Snap allows to do app packaging and even the rest of the system. Fedora uses rpm-ostree + flatpak instead.

[-] code@lemmy.mayes.io 1 points 1 year ago

This is why im on the hunt for a new distro. Looking at pop and fedora right now. Kinda prefer deb cause thats been my env for 15 yrs

[-] Recant@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would recommend using Linux Mint. It is Ubuntu without Gnome Shell and snaps. They use Flatpak instead. I have been enjoying it ever since I jumped ship from Ubuntu about 2 years ago.

[-] gvanburen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Been using popos on all my computers for the past year and have been happy with it.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard the latest Debian absolutely slaps; haven’t tried it yet myself though

[-] RamdomSlaphead@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking pop os or just boring plain debian. This snap shit is just getting too much to bother with.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Flatpaks fix a lot of debains boring.

[-] code@lemmy.mayes.io 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I game alot in linux and ive heard straight debian isnt so hot there

[-] miket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’d suggest if you want stock and recent Gnome, stick with Fedora.

Pop is building their own DE that they will switch to sometime in 2023. Which also mean they will remain 22.04 till then.

I’m waiting for VanillaOS 2.0 release to see if it is any better.

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[-] admin@lemmy.podycust.co.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Dunno why Canonical is pushing snaps so hard over flatpak

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