They need to kill snap ...

LtWorf a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

I think ubuntu wants to kill desktop linux. No other explaination of why they push firefox inside snap, which then proceeds to constantly crash, when firefox used normally works completely fine.

I haven't tried chromium but I presume it's the same issue.

At work I'm forced to use ubuntu and I placed snapd on hold and added mozilla's own apt repository to my configuration to get firefox.

At least in the past few months the dbus crashes (been using systemd on debian for several years just fine, this never happened) that render the system unusable and un-rebootable have stopped… I guess when my company will decide to upgrade to 26.04 there will be more instability and problems.

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cute_boi 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, please. Linux distros is better with macos approach. And making appimage first class makes a lot of sense.

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tancop 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Appimages are bloated and unreliable. You can't guarantee that your app will run on any machine because it might depend on different system libraries.

Flatpak uses shared stable runtimes that are the same everywhere and don't take up space more than once. It also comes with a native update system and sandboxing. Snap is the same thing but worse.

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petre 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'll avoid it at this point anyway. The Rust coreutils is another reason for that. Snap, monetizing updates, telemetry, enough is enough.

	▲	voakbasda an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yup. After almost 20 years, I have had enough of their crap. All of my new machines are getting Debian. Can’t wait until I am free of Ubuntu.