Snaps response [2] seems to be:
> I understand the sudden move of signal-desktop can be disruptive for people wishing to install this package. Just to confirm the reason for the absence - Snap Store administrators had to remove the snap in accordance with our policies. We hope to have it back shortly.
1. https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70#iss...
2. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop...
Would I use Ubuntu as a desktop, oh hell no -- nothing is ever going to beat Fedora.
Good to hear you enjoy Fedora, I do as well! I use the server variant for my stuff, unless you compile kernel modules you might find it a decent fit
When a program tries to build it's own little world without consideration for the conventions of the operating system it creates all sorts of problems and doesn't allow the user to leverage its functions as part of a complete system like they can with programs that follow the decades old Unix patterns.
What I'm saying is if Canonical wants to be in the Snaps business, perhaps they should make SnapOS.
Don't forget a --purge for extra wantonness.
And then engineers started installing snaps on their dev instances, I think mostly by accident...
Why fix what ain't broke?
Basically the same thing, but not only does it not have snap, it's also systemd-free :-)
I think the long term solution will be to just hop distros anyway (Ubuntu is doing their thing and it works for lots of people, they don't have to be everything for everybody, there are various other little pain-points for me that make it not really worthwhile).
I went back to Debian in the end. Absolutely nothing wrong with good old apt. Nice to have a clean and predictable system that respects my choices.
Once I realised they were not for me I started distro hopping and ended learning far more day to day system administration skills than ever.
To this day, I've never once found myself remotely tempted to use anything like a Snap or Flatpak.