I thought that was an April fools joke, I guess I should at least try Ubuntu on a VM the last time I tried it was when it first came out.
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haha. I think the joke was that Ubuntu would officially remove it.
That said, driven by user feedback, Ubuntu has made several improvements to Snap:
- Faster app startup thanks to improved compression
- Smaller installs and better dependency sharing across snaps
- Less intrusive updates with clearer refresh behavior
- Greater transparency.
Also see:
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Well Iām replying from it currently. So far itās not the greatest experience ever. It took 3 tries to get past the errors in installing it to begin with. And then it didnāt give the option of something other than GNOME for a desktop. Iām assuming snap is what runs software updater, itās not too annoying other than it had an error while running but then something else popped up that updated a bunch stuff and was fairly quick.
It keeps trying to get me to sign up for the pro thing which Iām not so sure I want to, I donāt see an advantage in doing that with the current planned usage.
Anyway, it seems a lot like the other Debian knock offs. Trying to bring Windows features (Software center, Software updater, one desktop, etc) to Linux. So far Iām not understanding the fascination with it. but to each their own I guess.
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Hm Very strange. Iām yet to have a single error with Ubuntu LTS during install. Would be interesting if thatās something to do with what itās being installed on. As with all Linux distros Iām pretty sure the error output points exactly to the issue.
For DEs you either install your own preference or install Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu MATE, etc. (I like they they are kept separate but still count as Ubuntu)
Ubuntu Pro doesnāt just extends security updates, live kernel patching, and critical patches to more parts of the system for up to 10 years, including packages that used to go unmaintained. Yea, not needed if just looking around. I believed it asked me once if I wanted to enable it.
Iāve used all 5 of my free Pro machine slots already. lol
These are all official Ubuntu flavors made by the community, so they use the same repositories and base system as Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu Pro attaches at the system level using pro attach, not at the desktop environment level, so it does not care whether you run GNOME, KDE Plasma, or Xfce.
Privacy-wise, Ubuntu Pro does not introduce any tracking. It only communicates with Canonical for entitlement and update delivery, similar to normal distribution security updates.
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