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If anything, Cannonical is aligning with mainstream in recent years: upstart -> systemd, unity -> gnome, mir -> wayland

New things that are Canonical specific are netplan and snap. I think snap is solving software packaging in Linux. If anything, I wish that snap brand stores were more affordable.

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Still dumping snapd into their server distro for some reason though.

It would seem that snap brand stores are essentially hosted private repos something one could do for Ubuntu for as little as $5 a month. Why not just use those?

Use flatpack

Use AppImage + firejail (optionally, to fully sandbox AppImage)

I want to like AppImage, but it is just unreasonable that there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded.

> there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded

Here it is.[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

[1] https://docs.appimage.org/reference/desktop-integration.html

I've tried AppImage, Flatpack, and Snap, and AppImage is the only one that approaches tolerable.

Tried Nixpkgs?

what's wrong with snap? is it that it needs a deamon?

Four issues with Snap: 1) You don't have control over how it updates packages. By default it can eat your LTE if you run your laptop after a while, for example. 2) It's eating into apt world. They are migrating programs into it which could've been usual apt packages. 3) It normalized longer startup times. 4) There are still issues with file system interop etc, but I personally can't provide an example.

> There are still issues with file system interop etc, but I personally can't provide an example.

Is that why my firefox downloads file into a tmp directory instead of ~/Downloads?

I also used to have vscode unable to sudo but it's no longer the case, maybe it's flatpak now, haven't checked

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