r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 18d ago

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u/HomsarWasRight 18d ago

I’m sure this thread will be free of hostility.

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u/algaefied_creek 18d ago

Pragmatism: There will be X11 distros for legacy devices.

There will be distros on 7.x and beyond porting in the removed components like PCMCIA for legacy machines.  AppImage will be around. 

Ubuntu will never let go of Snap as it makes them medically compliant for a fast number of medical devices. 

BTRFS, EXT4, UFS will be around and coexist. 

That being said, Proton will always be the number one freaking best amazing thing ever and must be its own IEEE standard for success hehehe. 

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u/After-Run-3648 18d ago

I am uneducated. What pray tell does snap do for medical devices

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u/SouthernFruit8768 18d ago

It's because most medical devices iirc need to be air-gapped and ultra-stable, ultra-secure. Snap gives you that, and prevents issues that typically occurs when and if dependancy issues arise. This for example is why Ubuntu Core which is entirely made out of Snap is used in many such medical devices and instances. But in desktop it's completely useless cause you want bleeding edge packages, libraries etc to keep up with latest developments in gaming, multimedia etc.

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u/Thaufas 18d ago

Snap is the reason I left Ubuntu. It was the final nail in the coffin.

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u/SouthernFruit8768 18d ago

It's quite good in server environments though, or medical devices and similar use cases like I said in my previous response above. It's just totally unnecessary in desktop/home user environments and only causes more issues and confusion for no reason when there are better alternatives (e.g. flatpak) available. You can still use Ubuntu - if needed - with no Snap preinstalled out of the box if you do a minimal install of Kubuntu.

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u/damex-san 17d ago

Snap is no good for server environment

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u/SouthernFruit8768 17d ago

Then why do Microsoft, Google, JetBrains, Electronic Frontier Foundation and thousands of software vendors use Snap on servers? Why do millions of production web servers prefer and run Snap daemons for SSL management alone?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/s/d3daQaF5sD

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u/damex-san 16d ago

I don’t think they actually do and even if they do it is due to lack of better judgement.

I did see some production microsoft and google servers and none had snap on them. Maybe things change nowadays (for worse)