[ale] Canonical and Snaps

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com]

On 4/24/23 23:17, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
> 
> If we ever met again I thought to do a talk for the group on these
> new boards. I've been moving away from openSUSE to Armbian ( Debian )
> because of the easy and the fact it runs on most everything.  Still
> hate Ubuntu ( Sorry DJPfulio).

I'm moving away from Ubuntu to avoid snap packages which have screwed me a few times and don't work with HOME directories that aren't under /home/ ... like every NFS HOME I've had the last 25+ yrs.  The lack of local control really will be the downfall for Ubuntu in corporate environments if they continue to push snaps without correcting that huge problem.

That and their lack of a native LDAP integration (not tied to MS-AD).  They should be embarrassed about that. Shocking to me that every Ubuntu system doesn't make integrating to LDAP for centralized account management trivial these days.

BTW, my main desktop has been Mint for a few months.  There are a few snap packages that do make things easy and secure for servers, so I'm not 100% anti-snap. I dislike having to fight distros that want to force things that I don't want, however.

I hope that Canonical figures all this out before too many people are forced to leave.  OTOH, they do all this work and give it away to nearly everyone, so who is to say that their vision of the future isn't more correct than what I think matters?