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.

    • IgnacioOP
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      92 years ago

      Yep, I can not understand why Canonical keep pushing snaps on desktop

      • Avid Amoeba
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        2 years ago

        Because maintaining snaps is a lot less work for whoever maintains the package, upstream developers, volunteers, or Canonical. If I’m shipping software for Ubuntu and I can use snap, I sure as hell will use it instead of deb.

      • @Nullpointer@lemmy.world
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        Because they something to lock you in to Ubuntu. They want Ubuntu to be the only thing that uses snaps. They want to get snaps to be an Ubuntu exclusive feature, and once they can start convincing some random closed source devs to ship in only the snap format they have a hook to keep you on Ubuntu. And they want those random random closed source devs to be focused on more of the corporate world so they can sell some support licenses.

        • @Maturi0n@feddit.de
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          22 years ago

          Snap is easily available on other distros as well. If anything, they want to lock you into their proprietary store.

    • rodneyck
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      12 years ago

      ‘Classic canonical corporate move’…there I fixed it for you.