Outdated snap packages
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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or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store. This is a long post, so feel free to skip to the ‘Solutions’ section for my positive thoughts.

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or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store.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

    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
      27·
      10 months 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.socialEnglish
      12·
      10 months 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
      5·
      10 months ago

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