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or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store.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.
Yeah, so, pure Debian nowadays is damn fine. Pop is excellent. No need to bend the knee to this nonsense.
Pure Debian is fine, if you have a decent grasp of Linux, and don’t want to install two applications with conflicting dependencies.
When’s the last time you’ve used Debian?
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.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.
