A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

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    1 year ago

    There's a benefit to Canonical, the corp that maintains Ubuntu, which is that while snaps are open source tech, the server for the snap store is closed source and snap can't be configured to point at another store.

    In other words, it's about centralized control.

    There are some advantages to the tech itself, like live auto-updating, which is good for security-critical server apps, but over all I'm not a fan.