[ale] Canonical and Snaps

[Lnx Gnome]

Oh, you love snap+NFS as much as I do.
I would not be surprised if the economics around their solutions is also a
driver for them.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> 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.
>
> That and their lack of a native LDAP integration (not tied to MS-AD).
> They should be embarrassed about that. Shocking to me that every Ubuntu
> system doesn't make integrating to LDAP for centralized account management
> trivial these days.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
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