A new foundation for TUXEDO OS: Switching to Debian: Many users have noticed that we have reduced our update cadence over the past few months, particularly with regard to Plasma updates. While Plasma 6.7.x is already available, TUXEDO OS is currently ...
I don’t really have an issue with snap personally. The real problem is that their store doesn’t integrate with Flatpack properly. So the whole thing just gets clunky
i can’t speak for that… Or against it (I use fedora anyway). But, I would agree that snap is letting Ubuntu down at the moment, as there is a lot of good in ubuntu too
From a user side though, that’s because the whole ubuntu/snap store thing is just clunky, even if we ignore who controls the store. Gnome Software and discover I find are more usable than Snap store. Cosmic will likely catch up too
And if you add snap support to the other package software, it becomes a mess
I will give them credit for trying these things though, and feel bad for them that Mir, bazaar and snap didn’t really succeed
There’s some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won’t install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.
Also the fact that it’s proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.
Probably a good decision in the long run, their rational makes sense. Ubuntu’s stubborn insistence on snap is poor decision making on their part.
I run Tuxedo as my daily driver and look forward to the more rolling release focused strategy.
rationale* or, better word choice, reasoning*
Sucks it will take a fresh install, but the whole reason I switched from arch was stability with new feature parity.
sorry, are you saying that Debian testing will be more or less stable than Ubuntu lts?
I don’t really have an issue with snap personally. The real problem is that their store doesn’t integrate with Flatpack properly. So the whole thing just gets clunky
The snapstore is proprietary that’s a no go.
i can’t speak for that… Or against it (I use fedora anyway). But, I would agree that snap is letting Ubuntu down at the moment, as there is a lot of good in ubuntu too
From a user side though, that’s because the whole ubuntu/snap store thing is just clunky, even if we ignore who controls the store. Gnome Software and discover I find are more usable than Snap store. Cosmic will likely catch up too
And if you add snap support to the other package software, it becomes a mess
I will give them credit for trying these things though, and feel bad for them that Mir, bazaar and snap didn’t really succeed
There’s some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won’t install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.
Also the fact that it’s proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.