A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

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    1 year ago

    The big difference is that Snap is partially proprietary. For those who like Linux for its free and open-source nature and all the benefits that confers, this is an unfortunate evolution that has a negative impact on the Linux ecosystem.

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      1 year ago

      And snap has other issues, such as it’s very badly implemented. No sane person wants to see 100s of lop devices mounted on lsblk all the time.