[ale] Canonical and Snaps

[Phil Turmel]

On 4/25/23 09:48, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> 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.

Concur.  The proliferation of snaps is ticking me off.  Probably going 
to debian for servers.  Contemplating OpenSUSE or Fedora's KDE spin for 
my laptops and desktops.

[trim--I don't care a whit about LDAP]

> 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.

Meh.  I'm more anti-snap for servers than for desktops. /:

I may have to consider Mint's Debian Edition for my laptop.

> 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?

The other factor I've been mulling is Ubuntu's new practice of holding 
back security updates for a bit unless you pay for Ubuntu Pro.

Phil