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Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
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Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#2Just to clarify, I am asking this question as I recently found out that on the next LTS version of Ubuntu, firefox will only be available as a snap. I myself am considering moving to vanilla debian but am interested in what others may be doing.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#3Just to clarify, I am asking this question as I recently found out that on the next LTS version of Ubuntu, firefox will only be available as a snap. I myself am considering moving to vanilla debian but am interested in what others may be doing.
Install such apps from other sources.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#4Yes. But which? Debian? Alpine? Fedora? It should be a "just works" distribution for recent hardware, as I nowadays like to work with it and don't have the time for much tinkering.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#5Yes. Back to straight Debian likely. I just use Ubuntu because it makes IT folks seem happier that it’s a real company we can hold accountable somehow.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#6Just to clarify, I am asking this question as I recently found out that on the next LTS version of Ubuntu, firefox will only be available as a snap. I myself am considering moving to vanilla debian but am interested in what others may be doing.
Install such apps from other sources.
I'd rather install an OS that works the way I want it to rather than work around it.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#7Yes. Back to straight Debian likely. I just use Ubuntu because it makes IT folks seem happier that it’s a real company we can hold accountable somehow.
How do you hold them accountable?
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#8Yes. But which? Debian? Alpine? Fedora? It should be a "just works" distribution for recent hardware, as I nowadays like to work with it and don't have the time for much tinkering.
Mint or Pop! OS perhaps.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#9Snaps are really not an open solution and Canonical is rightly getting push back from the community.
I use Arch on my desktop because it brings in the latest of upstream libraries and packages I use, and has been very stable for my use.
I would think any of the major up-to-date distributions should make a nice desktop. Fedora, Arch, PopOS(I believe they still use Ubuntu as base but remove snap as default, and also give you a better GNOME).
May be if enough people move away, Canonical will get the message.
Re: Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
#10Isn't it great that we can move to another linux :-)
If Ubuntu forbid me to use apt or the service command (which I have been using for a very long time) I may move. I don't see this happening though.
I have observed down through the years bright people like to change things unnecessarily. I imagine this is what has happened with snap.
I am very grateful for Ubuntu. Over 20 years I have moved from Redhat to Ubuntu. I still have a CentOS running in production which really needs migrated.