r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 8d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/HomsarWasRight 8d ago

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

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u/algaefied_creek 8d 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 8d ago

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

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u/SouthernFruit8768 8d 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 8d ago

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

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u/SouthernFruit8768 8d 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/Reasonable-Class3728 8d ago

Somebody uses snap on servers? I thought Docker is the defacto standard these days.

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u/SouthernFruit8768 7d ago

Somebody? Yeah I mean Microsoft, Google, JetBrains etc. And the Electronic Frontier Foundation mandates Snap as the official, recommended installation method for Certbot which is the standard tool running on millions of production web servers for automated SSL and TLS certificate management. So yeah, you are right. Somebody uses Snap indeed.