I’ll be excited again when they give up on Snaps.
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Snaps promise to do some really cool things. They just are a bitch to use and they are slow and tied too heavily to canonical.
Weren’t you supposed to be able to snap in and out a kernel by now? Like, not even needing a reboot?
The kernel is a snap in Ubuntu Core, but you still need to reboot. I don’t think there’s a nice way to work around that.
Ooh, I really like this wallpaper!
Word. Unfortunately I cannot like Ubuntu for all of canonicals decisions, but there's no doubt they have designed the most iconic Linux DE there is.
So much so that if someone who doesn't use Linux thinks of Linux, they imagine Ubuntu.
I still miss unity sometimes. The unified menu and the HUD/dash design, so well thought out
I haven’t been a Ubuntu guy in a long time, but Canonical consistently designs the best wallpapers for their releases.
Snap there still? If so, not even looking at it. Fedora and Debian I am thoroughly enjoying.
The push towards Snap appears to be more optional now
Yup I run LMDE on Desktop (or "LMAE" Arch) and Debian on servers since they made it annoying to rip out snaps. I'm not interested in making a distro something it is not, so just use something else.
What a jabroni.
I read that “Prickly muffin” and now I’m debating on whether I should or should not watch Bojack Horseman again
Attention Ubuntu users if you haven’t heard about it. There is currently a problem with the update, which is why it is stopped: Release Manager Simon Quigley on Reddit.