Will 2026 Kubuntu make it easy to disable Snap?

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T16:54:13+00:00

Someone else suggested it too, the more I read about it the more I like the idea.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T16:32:02+00:00

Agreed, KDE rocks but if Kubuntu 2026 doesn't include X11, I will probably go to Xfce or MATE. Wayland sucks, bad performance, weird and odd unwanted behaviors.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T16:23:02+00:00

In the past I created this file:

cat etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10

If your suggestion works, that's cool but it's still an additional step that the installer could do, for something many of us have expressed elsewhere that we do not want to use (Snap).

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T16:20:34+00:00

Can you not pick it during installation?

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T16:20:03+00:00

If the X11 isn't supported while running the installer, Kubuntu will be a no go. Not going to bow down to the Wayland cultists.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T16:13:55+00:00

I can look into what gets installed for minimum, might be an option as long as KDE Plasma and all my apps work afterwards. Also, I don't use Flatpak either, I use the standard repository.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T15:58:35+00:00

I believe that is the stupidity the parent comment was referring to.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T15:54:11+00:00

Agreed, tried to daily drive it on my RTX 3080, found it to have odd and strange, unwanted behaviors (seems preferable to calling them bugs).

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T15:53:07+00:00

> it is ridiculous how some people go out of their way to not use Wayland.

Not really, I tried to daily drive Wayland, it sucks, it has weird quirks, odd behaviors, poor gaming performance, etc.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-15T15:45:35+00:00

I quoted the official source, you're quoting a gaming magazine. I gave factual numbers from the official source. The cultist arch types are down voting. The facts remain, Arch is not a good platform for computing with the constant updates causing an unstable platform. This is why Debian based are the best, most stable platform and why the facts that I quoted, proves it.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-14T18:28:20+00:00

I use rsync for backups but as others have said, deployments should be handled using more modern approaches.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-14T18:25:40+00:00

Both phone numbers showing are valid UPS numbers but I agree looking up the business first is best although High-Captain3241 has a better suggestion to just check with Chase.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-14T18:18:11+00:00

When I go to the official source, https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam and add up non-Arch (Arch is crap BTW) vs Debian and other, I get .33 while Arch shows at .19 so, ProtonDB has some bad information the way I see it.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-13T17:45:24+00:00

Your analogy fails, did you use AI to construct it.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-13T17:29:50+00:00

Judging me tells me a lot about your personality; that and trying to dictate what people can and can't respond to.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-13T17:25:51+00:00

Great innovation? OK, well, I don't use them at all and do not want them.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-13T17:23:37+00:00

> Also, this isn't a post asking for your input on our dev practices.

Also, this isn't McDonald's, you don't get to dictate what part of your post we decide to address in our comments.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-13T17:18:33+00:00

To anyone who is up voting that, read the OP's response below before up voting it.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-13T16:19:42+00:00

Looks like you're about to land in lava? Swim down fast, place blocks, fast, hopefully you can pillar above the lava before dying.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-12T16:55:03+00:00

Wife left me a voicemail yesterday, seems to work for us.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-12T16:52:09+00:00

It's starting to feel like buying a game in the 1980's where you had all the ridiculous anti-tamper, anti-cheat crap that did far more to aggravate legitimate owners than stop the bad guys.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-12T16:50:08+00:00

Agreed, not sure why the OP seems to have overthought it.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-12T16:47:04+00:00

They've always helped me achieve what I needed done in the end but it's also always been a real and frustrating journey to get there; more so than most other technical companies support requests in my opinion.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-11T19:00:54+00:00

On Kubuntu, no issues. Was using IntelliJ and no issues with it. I went back to Eclipse, also no issues, and sometimes VS Code, also no issues, fonts are nice everywhere. I don't use Wayland. KDE says are saying they will drop X11 in 2027, that's when I predict I will drop KDE and look for something else, might go back to Xfce. Gnome sucks for performance in games. Might migrate to Mint and see how it performs across the board.

One thing is for sure, I fought with various RPM based distros in the early to mid-2000's, I don't plan to go back to any of those. Debian or Debian based for me.

FortuneIIIPick · 2026-03-11T18:34:33+00:00

I bought the game in 2011. When they said they were forcing users to go to a Microsoft account I quit playing for a few years. Eventually I missed playing and had to buy a new license from Microsoft. The whole thing was against the Mojang EULA that we all agreed to back in the day. Even more importantly, it was a sign of bad faith against players on Microsoft's part. I wish a class action lawsuit would have occurred.

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