Gregory's ServerUbuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/ubuntu-flavours-to-drop-flatpak-by-default-and-stick-to-snaps/ #Ubuntu #Flatpak #Linux
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@Julianoe " the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu" - the announcement @gamingonlinux one detail, that is meaningful for the sentiment: @gamingonlinux sounds surprising to me as someone who hadn't used ubuntu in a while. Why did they even ship with flatpak in the first place if they're literally ubuntu  @gamingonlinux one of the (main) reasons against snap is Cano ical which refuses to allow other snap store servers. This takes the option to create own snap servers and stores.  @gamingonlinux I didn't understand why, but this comment helped me to see another point of view : https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-flavor-packaging-defaults/34061/9 @gamingonlinux On the topic of whether it's a "big deal" or not, I'm not so concerned about the OOBE, I'm sure Ubuntu's regular users will be fine either way. But there's a clear, Microsoft-level conflict of interest when you have a company pushing their own proprietary solution while excluding competing technologies of the same kind. It starts to stink of walled-garden mentalities that are mostly antithetical to the FOSS community.  @gamingonlinux And I plan to drop Ubuntu by default and stick to Arch for computers and something not Red Hat or Ubuntu based for servers, maybe Debian or openSUSE... |
@gamingonlinux weirdly phrased because that's a decision by Ubuntu, not the flavours designers