steven36 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 The upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release will ship with a Snap version of Ubuntu Software app by default. It won’t carry this branding, though But while Ubuntu’s default software management tool will become pre-seeded Snap app starting in 20.04 existing Snap builds of Calculator, Characters, and Logs will be reverted to their repo versions. As noted on Ubuntu Discourse, the ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-minimal meta-packages now pull in the Ubuntu Software Snap app in place of the regular apt/repo version. To be clear: this is not a new app store. It is the same Ubuntu Software store as currently shipped, and is still based on GNOME Software. It just packaged as a Snap application. Functionality is largely unchanged by the switch too. The repackaged Ubuntu Software — which will show up as the “Snap Store” on other distros — still lets users browse and install regular apt packages from the Ubuntu archive; it still handles deb installers; and is still capable of fwupd firmware updates. There is one drawback, though. Ubuntu users looking for Flatpak/Flathub support will need to install the regular apt version of Ubuntu Software first (which is still being maintained and can be run alongside the Snap version) as the relevant gnome-software-plugin-flatpak is not (as of writing, at least) available via Snap. In summary, the only real change here is an invisible one (save for a potentially slower start-up time, an ongoing critique of snap apps in general). Users who upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 from 19.10 will be automatically transitioned from the repo version of Ubuntu Software to the new Snap version (i.e. they won’t need to install it manually). Those performing a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 will get the Snap package version as standard. Not that anyone needs to wait. It’s already possible to install Snaps from the Snap Store by installing the Snap Store as a Snap — 🥴 — on a supported version of Ubuntu (or another Linux distro that supports Snaps) by running: sudo snap install snap-store I can’t say this change will affect me too much. I rarely use Ubuntu Software to install, manage, or remove software as the command line is just far more efficient. How about you? Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 In my experience snap apps won't follow the system theme you applied. Furthermore I can confirm that snap apps start slower than normal apps. This move will confuse ubuntu users more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 9 hours ago, zigzag said: In my experience snap apps won't follow the system theme you applied. Furthermore I can confirm that snap apps start slower than normal apps. This move will confuse ubuntu users more. How is giving people more apps confusing ? Only thing changed is when you install Ubuntu the Software Store package is snap , The software store itself still host native packages and Snaps just like the deb version of Software Store gives people (If you don't like it being a snap package, you can uninstall it and install the deb version instead. ) They some apps I have that is only made snap or flatpac some of them may have appimage . But appimage and deb is troublesome because I have to go too the website to get updates were if i use PPA , Snap or Faltpac it auto updates , If people are too stupid to know the deference in packages it means there new to Linux and they would not know the difference no way . Just like someone new to Windows would not know the difference uwp ,win32 , msi ,exe ,pwa .x86 ,x64, PAF ,Spoon or Thinapp. Why complain about free ,? People go out of there way to give you something for free and all some people do in the free software community is complain like they bought it. If Devs listened to everything these whingers said we would not even have any software on Linux . Me myself i'm software agnostic as long i can use it and it's free and open source im happy to have it. a package is nothing but a wrapper who cares if it takes 5 more seconds to load because once it loads it runs the same. Its a lot less confusing than trying to install a deb that has missing prerequisites and having to scour the internet just to install them just to run the app . Because snaps comes with the libraries they need to begin with, at lest the app will run without the user having to go trough hell just to make it run! It don't confuse me alt all i put in my terminal snap list I have 8 snap packages installed 4 from canonical , 1 from my ubuntu budgie distro and 3 are from 3rd parties . All the 1000s of other packages i have are something else. My distro welcome app is snap and i a have comic book reader and a app to stream videos and music that's snap It uses QT that's another snap . As far as it not following the system that's no different than windows , if the devs have added themes to there apps you can change it to look like your system thats up too the dev . I find with Flatpac changing themes to not be working for some reason but it always works when i change themes on snap. I found out how to fix it on Flatpac you just install the theme your using from flathub to Flatpac. https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/how-to-get-flatpak-apps-to-use-correct.html PS: Flatpac is much more of a pain than Snaps with having to manually update them via the terminal $ flatpak update I had 17 updates not really worth the hassle for the 2 apps i had so i just removed flatpac flatpak uninstall --unused sudo apt-get remove --autoremove flatpak sudo apt-get purge flatpak installed PulseEffects from the PPA https://launchpad.net/~mikhailnov/+archive/ubuntu/pulseeffects Only app i cant get that i had was GRaido rewrite Shortwave DEVL and it really don't matter i have other radio apps. If they ever get something i really want flatpac only i will install it back . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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