[kwlug-disc] Snappy judgements, snappy issues, flat shadows

[Doug Moen]

Charles, if you can't move to Ubuntu 24.04, have you considered Mint?

The Mint app store is "Software Manager", aka mintinstall, and it seems perfectly fine. There's a search bar, a list of app categories, app listings have a 1-5 star rating, a good description, a screenshot (even for fonts, cli commands, etc), and reviews. It installs software either from 'apt', or from flathub. No snaps.

On Sat, May 18, 2024, at 8:38 PM, Charles M wrote:
> I'm not sure about server Khalid, but GNOME software was replaced with
> Canonical's Snap Store for Xubuntu 24.04. The snap store behaves a lot
> better than GNOME software, it's snappy (fast). I'm happy to be wrong,
> but it sadly seems to be snap only.
>
> There are still lots of .debs that can be downloaded via apt on cli,
> and it's still possible to install GNOME software, and install the
> flatpak extension. Flatpak's do not appear to work in the snap store
> (in my limited testing), but do work CLI and with GNOME software.
>
> There are other issues with Xubuntu 24.04 that prevent us from
> implementing it at Computer Recycling (we're still doing 22.04), but
> snaps are a problem for us too. Lots to think about in the next while.
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2024 at 20:50, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am still on Xubuntu (desktop) 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu
>> Server 22.04 LTS on all the servers I manage.
>>
>> So far, I have been successful in uninstalling snapd, after
>> I uninstall Firefox, and that does it for me. No snap in sight.
>>
>> Perhaps that works because I don't use Gnome, which
>> I faintly recall had a dependency on snapd. Or maybe 24.04
>> LTS changes things around? Don't know.
>>
>> $ snap
>> Command 'snap' not found, but can be installed with:
>> sudo apt install snapd
>>
>> $ snapd
>> Command 'snapd' not found, did you mean:
>>   command 'snap' from deb snapd (2.58+20.04.1)
>>   command 'snmpd' from deb snmpd (5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.9)
>>   command 'slapd' from deb slapd (2.4.49+dfsg-2ubuntu1.9)
>>   command 'zsnapd' from deb zsnapd (0.8.11h-1ubuntu2)
>> Try: sudo apt install <deb name>
>>
>> For Firefox, I use the Ubuntu Mozilla Team PPA, and install firefox-esr,
>> so it is a .deb with proper dependency management. The ESR version
>> is so that I don't get version updates too often.
>>
>> But for my specific use case, there is no reason to move off Ubuntu,
>> since all the servers are doing well.
>>
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