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All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

An all-snap Ubuntu desktop is coming — and sooner than you might think! Canonical’s Oliver Grawert says the next long-term support release of Ubuntu will come in in 2 versions: a classic, deb-based edition (default) […]

30 May 2023

Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap

Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship the CUPS printing stack as a snap package. Canonical’s Till Kamppeter, who is also the project lead for the OpenPrinting Project, says he wants to “…switch Ubuntu 23.10, the […]

29 May 2023

Hardware Accelerated Chromium Snap Ready to Test

If you run Ubuntu on a laptop or PC with 7th-generation Intel chips or later and you’re a fan of the Chromium browser, it’s your lucky day! Canonical has partnered with Intel to make a […]

9 May 2023

Fix Slow Ubuntu Shutdown Due to Stop Job Running for Snap Daemon

Sometimes I shutdown Ubuntu and …it takes ages to actually power off. Am I alone? Am I unreasonable? I’m not sure, but I am highly caffeinated — massive props to all the wonderful folks who […]

28 March 2023

Ubuntu Wants You to Test its Steam Snap

Remember when Ubuntu said it was getting serious about gaming? Well, it hasn’t forgotten entirely — it’s once again asking gamers to take part in a fresh bout of testing for its Steam snap. Steam […]

18 March 2023

Ubuntu 23.04 Makes Telegram a Deb-to-Snap Transitional Package

Telegram asked Ubuntu to transition users of its deb app to the officially-maintained Snap. The package is present in Lunar and may come to stable builds.

25 January 2023

How to Test Ubuntu Budgie’s Improved Window Snapping Feature

Better window snapping is coming to Ubuntu Budgie, with devs adding drag to snap quarter window tiling and asymmetrical tiling when holding modifier keys.

20 January 2023

Native Messaging Support Arrives in Stable Version of Firefox Snap

Yes, you can finally install GNOME extensions using the Firefox Snap on Ubuntu, without having to do anything fancy like switching Snap channel. Phew!

7 November 2022

Canonical’s Steam Snap Will Let You (Easily) Switch Mesa Stacks

The Steam snap app is levelling up its graphics prowess, as Canonical reveals plans to make different Mesa versions available for users to switch between.

25 October 2022

That ‘Unofficial’ Snap Store We Loved? It’s Becoming Official

Did you read my post on the 'unofficial' Snap Store for Ubuntu and come away as excited as I am about it's potential? Well, I've got an interesting update…

16 September 2022

Ubuntu Devs Finally Fix Frustrating Firefox Snap Flaw

Ubuntu's Firefox Snap package is tackling a longstanding criticism in the beta channels, namely the lack of native messaging support, vital for add-ons.

27 July 2022

‘Significant Improvements’ Made to Ubuntu Firefox Snap

Canonical has often talked about how it has improved the startup time of Snap apps yet, for many of us, the improvements remained theoretical.

10 July 2022
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