Plans For Immutable Linux Desktop With Ubuntu Core & Snaps

[Kresimir]

I’m not in the mood for epic rants, the whole Xeyes not working on Wayland thing is bumming me out… I’ll just leave this here:

KDE's August 2020 Apps Update

Oh boy, where to even start? Well, with Flatpak, because it’s a much lesser evil of the two. In fact, it’s not really that bad. The only issue I have with the concept of flatpaks is that they statically link all or most of their dependencies and do not integrate well with the system. The obvious downside of statically linking dependencies is that flatpaks use a lot of disk space. A less obvious, but perhaps more serious disadvantage is that older versions of dependencies may lack securit…

TL;DR: snapd is malware, don’t use it if you value privacy. Flatpak is fine, but bloated.

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Regarding immutability… I’m so sick of this padded room mentality, where your own system thinks you’re too stupid to be trusted with responsibility about security and blocks you on every step. ThAT PoTAtO PEeLEr IS jUsT tOo dANgErOuS, We HavE tO tAke It aWAy FRom You, YOu Can EaT mASheD PoTaToEs WiTh skIn, It’S nOt TOo baD.^[1] Doesn’t even let you get the global coordinates of the mouse pointer… Oh wait, we’re not talking about that here. But still, it sucks.