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Ubuntu Core Desktop - presented by Ken VanDine at SCaLE 2024 (www.youtube.com)
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Ubuntu Core Desktop is an immutable distro, takes a different path than most other immutable distros.

  • The entire OS is built using snaps, including the kernel and bootloader
  • Uses snaps instead of flatpak
  • Prefers LXD over distrobox and other projects that use podman
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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 11 points 2 weeks ago

Now there's a meme I haven't seen in a while.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

This honestly seems like one of the only things Snaps could be useful for in the future, considering you can update every component of the system with Snaps in a way that you can't with Flatpaks.

That said, I still dislike Snaps and I think it would overall be better for Ubuntu to use the standard packaging format that everybody else seems to be converging on; Flatpaks.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Canonical's been selling commercial support for Ubuntu Core for a while now. Why would they abandon it if it's working?

[-] markstos@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

As a former Ubuntu user, I’m more likely to try Fedora Silverblue at this point.

I like Podman so swapping it out for LXD isn’t compelling.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

If you game check out bazzite also 🙏

[-] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Fedora Silverblue is great, it's my daily driver.

[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Just don't ls /dev/loop* 🫣

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 week ago

Yeah just.... Why? Why all those devices? Why auch a mess?

Snap and systemd are the worst things to happen to Linux. Both in Basic, maybe, not a bad idea but the implementation is horrible

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm genuinely curious about it. I don't like snaps, but it seems like an interesting concept.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's a distro with 2 major things I hate. No thanks.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

absolutely not

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

snap

Aaaaaand we're done here. Fuck snap, no, bad dog!

[-] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Immutable IoT thin-client Snap container-based systems seems like a pretty weird kink, but who am I to judge?

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

snap refresh me daddy

this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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