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Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu (www.theregister.com)

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Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.

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[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Snap absolutely matters in server deployments FYI. Its advantages are pretty clear in that space, and arguably more suited to it.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Oh, that's interesting. And from what I know about Flatpak, I can see issues there.

...If snap (and base Ubuntu) basically diverge to, and specialize in, server usage, that seems fine.