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Canonical lifts lid on more Ubuntu Core Desktop details
(www.theregister.com)
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Snap has the ability to do the base system in a much more modular way and could be really cool for an immutable system. Forcing them on desktop users with their transitional deb packages and making it heavily integrated with only one repository really screwed it up.
Also I'm not sure about slow startup times. Are those still an issue? If so, then I would be sure to considet Ubuntu dead and not only not recommend it but actively recommend switching away from it.
Yes, they are still an issue. It is irritating enough that I have currently zero snaps and would rather build from source if snap is the only binary option.
That's basically THE dealbreaker for snaps. Loop devices on lsblk? Most people don't care and wouldn't see it. Proprietary backend? Again, most regular people (Ubuntu's target audience) do not care. So the slow startup time is THE dealbreaker.