A new foundation for TUXEDO OS: Switching to Debian: Many users have noticed that we have reduced our update cadence over the past few months, particularly with regard to Plasma updates. While Plasma 6.7.x is already available, TUXEDO OS is currently ...
i can’t speak for that… Or against it (I use fedora anyway). But, I would agree that snap is letting Ubuntu down at the moment, as there is a lot of good in ubuntu too
From a user side though, that’s because the whole ubuntu/snap store thing is just clunky, even if we ignore who controls the store. Gnome Software and discover I find are more usable than Snap store. Cosmic will likely catch up too
And if you add snap support to the other package software, it becomes a mess
I will give them credit for trying these things though, and feel bad for them that Mir, bazaar and snap didn’t really succeed
Mir was canonical’s own fault for trying to pull a (blatantly obvious) licensing move where Mir would have been nearly impossible to compete with in a future Ubuntu.
And that’s setting aside the absolutely insane statements canonical’s Mir team were making about Wayland at the time.
When you fumble something so badly that Intel stops supporting your efforts on it in protest, you messed up.
There’s some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won’t install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.
Also the fact that it’s proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.
The snapstore is proprietary that’s a no go.
i can’t speak for that… Or against it (I use fedora anyway). But, I would agree that snap is letting Ubuntu down at the moment, as there is a lot of good in ubuntu too
From a user side though, that’s because the whole ubuntu/snap store thing is just clunky, even if we ignore who controls the store. Gnome Software and discover I find are more usable than Snap store. Cosmic will likely catch up too
And if you add snap support to the other package software, it becomes a mess
I will give them credit for trying these things though, and feel bad for them that Mir, bazaar and snap didn’t really succeed
Mir was canonical’s own fault for trying to pull a (blatantly obvious) licensing move where Mir would have been nearly impossible to compete with in a future Ubuntu.
And that’s setting aside the absolutely insane statements canonical’s Mir team were making about Wayland at the time.
When you fumble something so badly that Intel stops supporting your efforts on it in protest, you messed up.
There’s some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won’t install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.
Also the fact that it’s proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.