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Outdated snap packages - Issues Canonical Needs to Address Before Releasing an "All Snap" Desktop (popey.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004.

If the “All Snap” or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store.

As I mentioned, there’s around five thousand snaps in the store. Hundreds of them haven’t been touched in years. Some developers have just abandoned their packages.

I want to see this situation improve. In general, Canonical should incentivise the promotion of applications and dis-incentivise letting applications languish.

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, so, pure Debian nowadays is damn fine. Pop is excellent. No need to bend the knee to this nonsense.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Pop is a better Ubuntu than Ubuntu now IMO.

I really hope the Cosmic desktop turns out to be awesome, that could really set them apart if it works.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

I'll also put in a vote for Debian Stable as a desktop distro in 2023. Flatpaks have drastically increased Debian Stable's appeal for home users, and you can now comfortably run a real stable distro while having the ~dozen applications you actually care about stay up to date. If you need more than Flatpaks there's also Homebrew, Nix, Cargo, deb-get, etc.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pure Debian is fine, if you have a decent grasp of Linux, and don't want to install two applications with conflicting dependencies.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

When's the last time you've used Debian?