If you (like me, and many others) are having problems updating those pesky snaps, close the updater/store, close Firefox and anything else you installed as a snap, open a terminal and type (without the quotes) 'sudo snap refresh' and everything should update fine. It worked for me. What a ball-ache though for an LTS and yes I know that the recommendation is to wait until the first point release before installing an Ubu LTS, but how come it's only Ubuntu that seems to ship what are effectively betas as a final release? Imagine someone transitioning from the 'doze having to deal with this? :/
After the last couple of LTS cycles, my intuition runs more towards "Ubuntu: Linux for Server Admins." Who are well deserving of the attention, I feel. And it should be a spiffing good market for Canonical. I had an old (formerly "main") PC that had successfully gone through several LTS upgrades of Xubuntu "in place," but it finally went casters-up while trying for 20 or 22 - I've forgotten which. For a lark, after archiving the data, I tried the MX equivalent of an "in place" upgrade, where you tell the installer to preserve the home partition, and reuse the main user id. Actually worked pretty well. A little tweaking here and there, mostly getting Thunar's settings and right-click menu to be sensible, but not bad. So I feel that Ubuntu and I can part as friends...
I'm firmly in the Fedora camp now after years of using the Buntu's , I'm still using Mint on our home media player laptop as it's working fine and don't feel the need to mess with it, but my personal laptop is Fedora XFCE. Some stats on Linux usage, after a decade of Linux staying around 2% of desktop OS it's now at 3.7% which is a pretty big jump but not earth shattering, factor in Chrome OS at 4% and that brings Linux and Linux based desktop OS to just under 8%. 🤔
Hi ghosty ........Still watching ya....just wondered if you fancy meeting up at OGGCAMP 24 in October. Its in Manchester and Tickets are free/paid. Steve & Don may come depending on circumstances. Also here`s a video of my new setup ruclips.net/video/aPJHo97lAqo/видео.html.... Loadsa love from the reboots.
I’ve even using Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop. Interestingly enough I’ve had more issues with flatpak for audacity and bluemail but they work ok on snap. Strange.
Audacity is still available as a .deb from the repos, not sure about bluemail though. Snaps do seem to have improved of late but I'm still not even 10% assured of the safety of snaps after all the exploitation of the system and the apparent insecurity and lack of oversight pertaining to the store over the years that still have not been addressed. Add to that the closed source nature of the snap store and it's still a minefield even after all the years Canonical have been pushing it. All the above notwithstanding, 24.04 is turning out to be a great release.
@@stationsixtyseven67 You should try this Xandros Community Edition. I noticed a while back you review PC/OS Linux from the makers of black lab. This is there latest attempt.
Dear author, please tell me, screen sharing with Wayland has already been fixed in Ubuntu 24.04. If I use Discord or Telegram and show the screen when calling.
If you (like me, and many others) are having problems updating those pesky snaps, close the updater/store, close Firefox and anything else you installed as a snap, open a terminal and type (without the quotes) 'sudo snap refresh' and everything should update fine. It worked for me.
What a ball-ache though for an LTS and yes I know that the recommendation is to wait until the first point release before installing an Ubu LTS, but how come it's only Ubuntu that seems to ship what are effectively betas as a final release? Imagine someone transitioning from the 'doze having to deal with this? :/
After the last couple of LTS cycles, my intuition runs more towards "Ubuntu: Linux for Server Admins." Who are well deserving of the attention, I feel. And it should be a spiffing good market for Canonical.
I had an old (formerly "main") PC that had successfully gone through several LTS upgrades of Xubuntu "in place," but it finally went casters-up while trying for 20 or 22 - I've forgotten which. For a lark, after archiving the data, I tried the MX equivalent of an "in place" upgrade, where you tell the installer to preserve the home partition, and reuse the main user id. Actually worked pretty well. A little tweaking here and there, mostly getting Thunar's settings and right-click menu to be sensible, but not bad. So I feel that Ubuntu and I can part as friends...
I'm firmly in the Fedora camp now after years of using the Buntu's , I'm still using Mint on our home media player laptop as it's working fine and don't feel the need to mess with it, but my personal laptop is Fedora XFCE. Some stats on Linux usage, after a decade of Linux staying around 2% of desktop OS it's now at 3.7% which is a pretty big jump but not earth shattering, factor in Chrome OS at 4% and that brings Linux and Linux based desktop OS to just under 8%. 🤔
Hi ghosty ........Still watching ya....just wondered if you fancy meeting up at OGGCAMP 24 in October. Its in Manchester and Tickets are free/paid. Steve & Don may come depending on circumstances. Also here`s a video of my new setup ruclips.net/video/aPJHo97lAqo/видео.html.... Loadsa love from the reboots.
So I'm not a human being because I use MX🤔 Anyway, nice one Ghosty😉
Yes you are and so am I as I still run MX on the main rig. :D
I’ve even using Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop. Interestingly enough I’ve had more issues with flatpak for audacity and bluemail but they work ok on snap. Strange.
Audacity is still available as a .deb from the repos, not sure about bluemail though. Snaps do seem to have improved of late but I'm still not even 10% assured of the safety of snaps after all the exploitation of the system and the apparent insecurity and lack of oversight pertaining to the store over the years that still have not been addressed. Add to that the closed source nature of the snap store and it's still a minefield even after all the years Canonical have been pushing it.
All the above notwithstanding, 24.04 is turning out to be a great release.
@@stationsixtyseven67 You should try this Xandros Community Edition. I noticed a while back you review PC/OS Linux from the makers of black lab. This is there latest attempt.
Dear author, please tell me, screen sharing with Wayland has already been fixed in Ubuntu 24.04. If I use Discord or Telegram and show the screen when calling.
I'm afraid I don't use Discord or Telegram so I can't help you with an answer, sorry.
No issues