Ubuntu Core Desktop will not be released alongside Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in April, as originally hoped.
Canonical doesn’t go into details about what specific issues need resolving. One imagines, given that the first Ubuntu Core Desktop release was going to be a preview and not a recommended download, it’s a myriad bugs/difficulties — ones not easily sorted.
“Canonical announced it was building an all-snap, immutable version of Ubuntu for home users called Ubuntu Core Desktop.”
I don’t like the sound of this.
I can only imagine what a call to ‘mount’ is going to look like.
Now you’ve borned so much executable type. Why can’t you release the source code of the software to “make sure there isn’t malware” and pledge and unveil it.
They probably realized snaps are garbage and are still trying to desperately un-garbage them before the release.
Snaps are technically superior to Flatpaks. They allow running sandboxed system integrated programs, a capability no other packaging system has in existence. Cry.
Isn’t that also the case for Flatpacks?
No, Snaps are the only packaging system capable of sandboxing and running system integrated programs.
Oh you mean for command line applications, yes, Flatpacks cannot do that yet. Personally I manually enable Snaps in the distros I use, as some apps only exist there, but have been orienting myself where I can limit the exposure to only the packages I want.
Fuck Canonical anyway.
Canonical still does more for the Linux desktop than most of us ever have or ever will
Agreed.
Neverless, fuck Canonical.
Now proceed to do something for Linux.
I do. I send in bug reports when I run into one, and try to provide details and context appropriate to the problem. I don’t know how to code, so that’s about as much as I can do.
Just because Canonical has done something right doesn’t mean they are immune to blame for doing something wrong, and they have done some shit.
Canonical has done something
Linux is mainstream solely because of Canonical/Ubuntu. End of story. No, there was no WINE or Valve doing that, they were only supplemental over time.
Yes, I believe I did acknowledge that. Doesn’t mean they’re immune to blame for shit they did wrong.
And what is this “shit” thing they did? Snaps are technically superior to the beloved Flatpaks in Linux community.
