The most annoying thing for me was the huge internet data usage by snap updates but it is better now.
Even though it showed 300mb for a Firefox update, but only consumed 80mb and everything updated and working wonderfully ! 😅 😍 👑
The New app store is beautiful 🙌
(just sharing my experience 😅 )
Appreciate the heads up. I started tinkering with Ubuntu on the Pi 5, one if the first things I went about doing was removing snap, grabbing a .deb repo for Firefox and installing flatpak.
If snap is restored as part of system upgrades, I may switch back over to raspbian, or check out other distros to tinker with.
I have to say, Ubuntu on the Pi is quite nice, and Wayland is working wonderfully on it.
Yes Ubuntu is a great OS, which is why the whole snaps thing was so sad. Everyone already loves Ubuntu and uses it, why force snaps on users? Have both snaps and flatpak and let the user have the freedom to use both.
Simply makes no sense to ban fkatpak support out of the box and make users do it manually. Why? The flavours were adding flatpak support for the convenience of the user which is great, but canonical said they had to stop doing that or else they cannot be an Ubuntu flavour anymore.
Very strong handed mafia style bullshit that doesn’t belong in FREE SOFTWARE.