Canonical to abandon Snap, remove in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-ditch-snap/

by kbouck • 3 years ago

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maxboone2• 3 years ago

I sure hope this is not an April fool's joke

maxboone2• 3 years ago

It is, article links to wikipedia page for april fool's day.

Sure got me.

xiaomai• 3 years ago

Lame April Fool's joke. It sure would be nice if Snaps would go away though.

silisili• 3 years ago

April Fools jokes are supposed to be funny and lighthearted. This one is just going to crush anyone it fools.

blooalien• 3 years ago

Indeed. Not funny, just mean… I had my hopes up for a moment, until I remembered what day it is today.

mcint• 3 years ago

I'm crushed.

000ooo000• 3 years ago

Totally had me until this line:

Not everyone is happy with the decision, of course.

Gave it away

ofalkaed• 3 years ago

This made me hate Snap and Canonical even more than I used too.

mattigames• 3 years ago

Please don't flag it @dang , just preppend "April 1st joke: " to the title

throwawaaarrgh• 3 years ago

this forum really is where fun goes to die

awinter-py2• 3 years ago

snap firefox crashes all the time

it can't just be me

fretn• 3 years ago

Same here

Also if you remove apparmor, snapd will be removed without telling you that this will break all snaps. That's not how a package manager is supposed to work

selivanovp• 3 years ago

Mine works for weeks between occasional reboots to install kernel updates. If firefox crashes a lot for you, most probably it’s one of the addons you use causing that.

awinter-py2• 3 years ago

a girl has no addons

jacooper• 3 years ago

Too good man too good. Let's hope it becomes a reality one day.

francisduvivier• 3 years ago

Haha, I wonder how funny this will be when Canonical eventually really needs to dump it.

wkat4242• 3 years ago

Lol, this one really fooled me.

I mean, after UpStart, Mir, Unity, I really feel it's only a matter of time till they realize it's pointless to play the not invented here game and just adopt FlatPak.

I think their main reason is trying to get their own intellectual property on the map and to be the gatekeeper for the snap store which could become lucrative when paid apps ever become a thing.

But as with their previous not invented here enterprises, nobody else is interested and they're just wasting money.

Daviey3• 3 years ago

I think your definition of NIH differs from mine, on all of those projects. Let's start with Upstart, how was that NIH?

talkin• 3 years ago

NIH is a cynical name, it means you prefer IH. All this stuff is related to Canonical reinventing stuff, without most other distros adopting it.

usr1106• 3 years ago

If it's too good to be true it's probably not true.

Not a great topic for a joke.

Brian_K_White• 3 years ago

Lame whoever flagged it.

tpoacher• 3 years ago

I was about to say finally they've seen the light, first flathub, now snap, this is restoring my faith in ubuntu.

Then I saw all the comments noting today's date.

Oh well.

jfolkins• 3 years ago

LOL.

IYasha• 3 years ago

I knew this was a joke from the start, but I wish so much it would be true! I'd rather have just plain old .deb packages.

Canonical to abandon Snap, remove in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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