I hate them because they make Ubuntu useless for a desktop in an enterprise environment. Snaps have a bug where they will NOT open with a network home directory, which is common for a business … And now they’ve made Firefox snap only.
So for a business environment: you can’t even open the included web browser. WTF?
Do you understand now?
Hey Canonical, how about you spend that effort fixing (or removing) snap instead?
I still can’t open the default Firefox install when using NFS home directories with autofs.
Ubuntu is now almost useless in an actual business desktop environment.
They probably realized snaps are garbage and are still trying to desperately un-garbage them before the release.
They were a pain 20 years ago and they’re a pain now.
Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker… Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.
The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service’s enshitification… While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.
Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.
The distro you’re using and the model of laptop and a link to the bug/commit would make it easier to answer what you can expect.
Ok I’ll bite. What’s the software you “need”?
Something doesn’t add up, or only 2/3 are true.
Don’t know what’s funny about that. It was originally written/tested on the Google Nexus 4.
Edit: dug up a source:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/FAQ#On_which_devices_does_this_Developer_Preview_run.3F
“The initial development at Canonical happened to be on the mobile phones Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 and the tablets Nexus 7 and Nexus 10”
Production. Means “anything important”.
I think it was actually the default on 18.04 LTS as well.
If I install something and it just plain doesn’t work without google play services - it gets immediately uninstalled and I find an alternative.
Install Linux and this is the way.
Are you intentionaly using NTFS for compatibility with another machine? If not, I’d use a Linux native filesystem like xfs or ext4 and add it to /etc/fstab
So go to Walmart on your way to the oil change place.
OR - admit you’re not really going to Walmart and just pay them to get it done.
Have them check with their University if they do any Linux support. If they do - use one of the distros they support so they might possibly have KB articles about accessing University recourses from Linux.
Source: am Linux admin at a University that writes such documentation. I have seen exactly the Eduroam issue you mention and came up with an Ubuntu workaround for example.
Are you talking about MS Teams?
You get free software AND you get to empty your wallet?
Ok I’ll bite. What’s so bad about dnf? I would take it anyday over apt.
Tell me you don’t understand what those distros are without telling me you don’t understand what those distros are.