"An estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released late Tuesday said that while the new work requirements in #SNAP would save money, the added benefits pushed by Democrats would cost more—and add almost 80,000 people to the rolls in an average month
"I understand that Snap is meant to release us from dependency hell and I know why you’ve put each one in its own little sandbox, but honestly, even ChromeOS running a Linux application in its virtual machine is faster than this, and it doesn’t require everything to come from one distribution hub, or mess with access to hardware. (...) I need a distro that understands me and works with me, not against me!"
It sounds like a reasonable idea: the GOP wants to require people age 50-55 without kids to work if they want to get food stamps.
But there are a few problems with painting that group as slackers: most of those people already work, and most of those who don't work aren't working because they are caring for kids or elders or dealing with significant health issues.
I want bash scripts, but with conveniences and lightweight dependencies that can be inlined.
Imagine a "direnv-like" standard library of functions, alongside the ability to fetch-if-not-installed certain binaries, and maybe even a super simple module system.
Then, you bake the script, and it becomes a single file bash script.
To be clear, I want to write it in bash, and have it turn into "bash that I can curl".
Pretty shure this would require either a derivative language [i.e. "enhanced bash" / "ebash"] or require some preprocessor approach like #Blitz [#BASIC] and #Sass [#TypeScript]...
Ich konsterniere immer mehr bei der Frage von Linux-Distros für Nicht-Geeks. Der Text erklärt das gut: Distros, die vorgeben, einsteigerfreundlich zu sein, und dann bricht doch etwas zu stark, sind konzeptionell ein Irrweg. Das hilft am Ende niemandem.
#Ubuntu und seine Ableger (ja, auch Mint und mittelbar Pop!_OS) spielen sich mit dem #Snap-Desaster, bizarren Sonderwegen und Werbung im System an den Rand. #Fedora und #openSUSE richtige sich mMn schon an Geeks, man muss auch Repos für Video-Hardwarebeschleunigung und Mainstream-Codecs aktivieren und solche Späße. Distro-Upgrades (oder Tumbleweed) sind bei Fedora und openSUSE auch nicht unproblematisch. Dann bleibt nicht mehr viel übrig. Arch, #EndeavourOS und Co. sind für Nerds.
Das mit Snap ist schon eine skurrile Entwicklung.
Warum in #Ubuntu und #Derivaten inzwischen selbst Core-Software wie #Firefox nicht mehr als #Paketversion gepflegt wird, sondern der Weg über #Snap, verstehe ich auch nicht wirklich.
Ok, Snap-Software ist mehr wie in der #Sandbox und Paketabhängigkeiten sind einfacher aufzulösen bzw. gar nicht vorhandenen. Aber es bleibt ein Sonderweg, der eben nicht nur Vorteile hat.
I feel, I can't recommend #Ubuntu anymore.
The fact that they are pushing #Snap is the reason.
One of the reasons is, that Snap gives a bad user experience. Snaps are really slow at startup and sometimes you have to launch them twice before they open, sometimes it just doesn't open at all.
I understand that using Snap is much easier, since you make one package , that runs everywhere, and I'm all for it! #Linux has been needing something like Snap and #Flatpak for a long time and now they are finally here. But pushing a product which doesn't work well is what I don't like about it.
Flatpak works much better and more smoothly than Snap does. Another thing about Snap I think they should be fixing is the centralization around Snapcraft - make it possible for others to set up repositories.
I think many people are having the same opinion, so hopefully (for themselves) #Canonical can learn and change the issues before Snap goes to 0. If they don't, then eventually more apps will come to #Flathub instead of #Snapcraft.
It's a neat little OS. Kinda halfway between #NetBSD and #OpenBSD's razor focus and minimalism, and #Linux's sprawling feature set and bloat.
It's a stupid rubric, but I always judge a system by mount |wc -l (taking into account if there are many actual volumes mounted). If there's more than 10 non-disk volumes by default, that's kind of silly.
I know people say compression in #Flatpak would be unnecessary but it would be quite interesting to see someone implementing it. And perhaps since there is less data to compress it could have a more efficiency-focused compression algo unlike #Snap?
On upgrade #Ubuntu 23.04 removes #GNOME Software and reinstalls the #snap store. I don't like the upgrade removing software I have chosen to install for no good reason other than #Canonical trying to push their stuff. Do whatever you want for default installs, but keep my choices on upgrade!
To coincide with the new #Ubuntu release Sam and I have given the blog a bit of a do-up 💅🏻.
Oh yeah, and we FINALLY added dark mode support 🌙 It will "just work" with the dark mode preference on your OS/DE (though not Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, sadly).
@omgubuntu hello there, I am not a very technically inclined person, I would like to ask: are there any implications or negative impacts on #firefox being distributed as a #snap? For the end user at least, performance or #security. Thank you in advance.