I have upgraded two systems to #Ubuntu 24.04 now and also tried #Thunderbird as snap (which is the default for Ubuntu 24.04) on another machine.
The system upgrades were incredibly smooth. Thunderbird in general also works fine, but it doesn't support #GPG with private keys on a #YubiKey yet (which is my usecase). (Yes,there is a workaround, although clunky.)
So it looks like I'll stay on 23.10 a bit longer on my main machine.
@oliklee snaps feel like a step backwards although they shouldn’t. Whenever I used one, I faced issues. Missing fonts in dialogues was the most annoying. But also missing hardware support. Slack as a snap couldn’t use my camera and microphone.
Maybe things improved over time but I still don’t see the advantages despite understanding the theoretical technical advantages under the hood.
@alexanderschnitzler Me too. I have been bitten by quite a few issues related to the migration to snap. And I understand the reasons why using snap makes work for the maintainers a lot easier. Some part of me secretly wants snap to „just work“ (haha).
@oliklee Me too but I don’t understand why there are so many different competing package formats once again. And then there is the whole nix universe as well. Hard to decide what to use and tbh, double click an exe or moving a dmg file is sometimes easier than using a package manager. 🫣
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