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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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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Isn’t base Ubuntu losing marketshare?

I know it’s not comprehensive, but the Steam survey shows Mint skyrocketing and Ubuntu dropping like a rock. And I feel like Snap doesn’t matter in server deployments or business machines. So… who’s this for?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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