Canonical Announces Big Changes for ‘Future of Snapcraft’

Unexpectedly, Canonical has shared a new blog post covering ‘the future of Snapcraft’ — but don’t get carried away: they’re not moving away from Snap apps. In fact, they’re kinda doubling down. Canonical’s Igor Ljubuncic explains more in a relatively wordy-yet-vague blog post. He says that the current codebase for Snapcraft (the technology behind Snaps) will become “legacy” and a newer, smaller, and ‘even more modular’ Snapcraft codebase (dubbed ‘core22’) will take over. Yes, Canonical is rewiring Snapcraft. One hopes this address some of its present shortcomings and, again, one hopes the changes may broaden its appeal within the wider :sys_more_orange:
#Dev #News #Canonical #Packaging #Snapcraft #Snappy #Snaps

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/01/canonical-announces-big-changes-for-future-of-snapcraft

You Can Now Install the Windows Calculator App on Linux

Want to use the Windows calculator app on your Linux desktop? Well, now you can. This unexpected app port is arrives courtesy of the Uno Platform. They took the source code for Windows’s default Calculator :sys_more_orange:
#News #SnapApps #Snappy #Uno #Windows

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/10/install-windows-calculator-ubuntu

Linux Mint 20 Blocks Snap App Installs, So Here’s the Workaround

Linux Mint 20 disables support for Snap apps entirely on your behalf, but in this post I'm going to show you how to re-enable it by deleting a single file.
#HowTo #LinuxMint #LinuxMint20 #SnapApps #Snappy

:sys_omgubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/06/enable-snap-apps-linux-mint-20