<story><title>Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/927262/6adb2350e2b0d2ce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>Snaps are getting me off Desktop Ubuntu after 12 years of happily using it.</text></item><item><author>wilonth</author><text>Wow they&amp;#x27;re still pushing snaps, the project with some the worst engineering I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen.&lt;p&gt;- Extremely slow at doing anything, even the most basic commands.&lt;p&gt;- Ridiculous auto-update mechanism (you can&amp;#x27;t even disable it wtf).&lt;p&gt;- Random, nonsense limitations (why can&amp;#x27;t I open dot files and dot directories???).&lt;p&gt;So terrible that for most apps that I installed with snaps I end up installing the deb version later on.&lt;p&gt;What an abomination, it is a devil that&amp;#x27;s hurting the Linux desktop everyday.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumb63</author><text>Canonical seems to be trying to push users off of Ubuntu. I switched to Arch from Ubuntu about 6 years ago after seeing how aggressively Ubuntu would auto-update, and because of Zeitgeist. I would never look back.&lt;p&gt;Arch is customizable, simple (in the sense that there are no surprises; things work as expected), and has a great community. Folks here can argue about snaps or flatpaks, and I can happily use AUR to install nearly anything. If it’s not there, I can publish it.&lt;p&gt;I’m not forced to adopt whatever GUI Canonical thinks is best for me in a given year or whatever their trendy new craze is. I can enjoy i3, tmux, vim, and ignore the rest.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/927262/6adb2350e2b0d2ce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>Snaps are getting me off Desktop Ubuntu after 12 years of happily using it.</text></item><item><author>wilonth</author><text>Wow they&amp;#x27;re still pushing snaps, the project with some the worst engineering I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen.&lt;p&gt;- Extremely slow at doing anything, even the most basic commands.&lt;p&gt;- Ridiculous auto-update mechanism (you can&amp;#x27;t even disable it wtf).&lt;p&gt;- Random, nonsense limitations (why can&amp;#x27;t I open dot files and dot directories???).&lt;p&gt;So terrible that for most apps that I installed with snaps I end up installing the deb version later on.&lt;p&gt;What an abomination, it is a devil that&amp;#x27;s hurting the Linux desktop everyday.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>I moved to Debian 11 and recreated exactly the same quite customized GNOME desktop I had on Ubuntu 20.04. Nothing is missing except snaps.</text></comment>