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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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[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Snap absolutely matters in server deployments FYI. Its advantages are pretty clear in that space, and arguably more suited to it.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

The only reason I can think of to use a Snap is that you're using Ubuntu, and some package you expected to be available through apt is now only available as a Snap. The better solution is to not use Ubuntu, and rely on Docker or Podman to get anything not available as a system package.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

They do? Why?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh, that's interesting. And from what I know about Flatpak, I can see issues there.

...If snap (and base Ubuntu) basically diverge to, and specialize in, server usage, that seems fine.