What's that? #ubuntusnaps are badly designed for desktop usage? Who knew?

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#Flatpak, #AppImage, take your pick. Much better integration and uses standard #SELinux - instead of having to suffer #Canonical and their #NotInventedHere syndrome with #AppArmor.

Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal
https://itsfoss.com/news/vscode-snap-disk-space-issue/

Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal

The bug itself was reported all the way back in November 2024, and the issue is still present for current Snap versions of VS Code and even VSCodium.

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KDE, Kubuntu, Debian Qt6 updates plus Kubuntu Noble .1 updates. – Scarlett Gately Moore

Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle

Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up. tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last. This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you don’t have the time there’s a briefer summary at the bottom under “In summary (the tl;dr)” along with my suggestions on what Canonical should do now.

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KDE: Snaps, KDEneon, Debian and my future. – Scarlett Gately Moore

KDE: KDE Snaps 23.08.4, PIM! KDE neon, Debian – Scarlett Gately Moore

I started to make my planned transition this weekend - one server now running #debian12 vs Ubuntu 22.04. I had nothing against #Ubuntu but #redhat showed me that community software is the way to go. One down, more to go. #UbuntuSnaps are now a thing of my past too.
KDE: Krita 5.2.1 Snap! KDE Gear 23.08.3 Snaps and KDE neon release – Scarlett Gately Moore

Posting from Tokodon 23.08.3 matrix client snap. Download in the snap store! Great stuff!
#KDE #UbuntuSnaps
KDE: Big fixes for Snaps! Debian and KDE neon updates. – Scarlett Gately Moore