Quoting: CaldathrasFALSE. Been a while since you've looked at AppImage, I'm guessing? Most modern AppImage files are shipping with built-in update support (0 A.D. For example). There are two ways that I'm aware of to get AppImage updating these days. One is the official AppImageUpdate [External Link] (which is distributed via an AppImage and can also update itself). This is still considered to be in beta. The other is to use AM / AppMan (AppImage Package Manager) [External Link].

Exactly I'm using AM and mostly install AppImages with AppMan in my home folder and it handles updates. It doesn't do it automatically like snap, but I don't mind running am -u from time to time.

I also used the AppImageUpdate for a time, but it wasn't working quite right. Maybe it is better now, but looking at the GitHub it is still in alpha stage.

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Quoting: GerarderloperOne thing I'd like developers to use which has yet to catch on is training VOICE models and getting much more voice acting into games, something that smaller dev studios normally can't afford due to high cost of human VA. Fact is, VA need to just live with this consequence of AI impacting their jobs.

Your voice is NOT all that unique, many people share extremely similar voice patterns and voice actors have been replicating other peoples voices for a long time in comedy. Should someone be sued if they sound like a famous actor? it all comes down to the sourced training data and consent! not if a AI-Voice sounds similar to someone else!

You want a crappy, woeful AI voice over in games, because I absolutely don't want that. Better no VA than that shit.

You either do it properly or you don't do it all.

I already hate all the YouTube channels with AI voice over and don't even talk about that autodub they introduced.

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Quoting: rea987Yup, Firefox gargled by snap issue is what forced me to quit Ubuntu and migrate to Debian couple months ago. The issue might be fixed for the latest versions of Ubuntu but it still was there for 24.04 LTS release.

I didn't have problems with snap Firefox startup on 24.04 LTS and I upgraded in October to Ubuntu 25.10 and it still starts fast.

Also when I installed Strawberry music player snap and started it for the first time, there was a warning popup that it might be slow (and so on) because it is installed as a snap package. It isn't packaged as snap by the developer of the program, but I am certain that the warning is from the developer. And gues what I can't tell a difference beetween the .deb install of Strawberry and the snap one.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: Craggles086Unfortunately not enough in this category on Linux or anything else.

I've been digging into emulated PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 titles for this, in recent times - that console had a ludicrous amount of shooters to its name (still the most of any console ever, to my knowledge), and many excellent vertical ones are among them. I'm quite fond of Star Parodier [External Link] and Blazing Lazers [External Link], myself. :grin:

There is a great two part history of that console by Shmup Junkie on YouTube. He mentions in the first part that 20% games for that console were shooters.

History of the Amazing PC ENGINE! Book I [External Link]

History of the Amazing PC Engine! Book II [External Link]

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There is also a snap package and it was updated today.

Also there is an AppImage but that is still 5.7.0 version.

https://github.com/An0n3m0us/Minetest-AppImages/releases [External Link]

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Quoting: BrokattI am also a Kubuntu user, you have to have Flatpak for this. It's not available either as a snap or deb. If I remember correctly you have to open Discover, go to settings and enable flathub. If I am wrong you can follow these instructions: https://flatpak.org/setup/Kubuntu [External Link]

No you don't have to have Flatpak.

ProtonUp-Qt is available as AppImage.

https://github.com/DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt/releases [External Link]

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Quoting: SoltrummanOh and it keeps the three(!) latest versions of all snaps, last time i checked that was a hard coded number. Thanks Canonical, i don't need my disk space anyway, just fill it with old snaps. Oh while your at it maybe you could mount all snaps as loop devices just to make a mess? Cool.
And i _love_ the snap folder in my home directory, just love it, because that's the only folder where sandboxed snaps can write to, such an elegant solution.

It doesn't keep three latest versions. It has the current version of snap package and the previous one in case if you would want to revert to that version.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/managing-updates/7022 [External Link]

The refresh.retain value can be a number between 2 and 20. The default is refresh.retain=3 on Ubuntu Core systems and refresh.retain=2 on classic Ubuntu systems, such as those running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus).

The snap packages are at /var/lib/snapd/snaps. And if you would like to get rid of the old versions of snaps there is this handy script.

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-to-remove-old-snap-versions-to-free.html [External Link]

I wonder how many normal users check their loop devices. I'm using Ubuntu since 8.04 LTS and I checked it only once there was all this drama about snap. Just out of curiosity and then I added the alias as suggested by others so it filters out the loop devices. And the loop devices don't show up in programs such as Nautilus, Nemo, Gnome Disks and Disk Usage Analayzer.

The snap folder also isn't a problem for me especially considering that I have the hidden files always visible. There is an experimental flag that will migrate contents of that folder to ~/.snap/data on new snap installs and refreshes.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/experimental-flag-for-hiding-snap/28509 [External Link]

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Quoting: F.UltraThe Mozilla Team PPA is not by Mozilla, it's by a voluntary group inside Canonical (or at least they where some years ago). Mozilla are the ones that build the snap for Ubuntu.

Exactly it's not Mozilla that provides the PPA.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam [External Link]

Bug reporting is specific to Ubuntu with the use of Apport and Launchpad.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs [External Link]

And they also mention this:

Is the problem Ubuntu specific?

When reporting a bug, it is often useful to determine whether the problem is specific to Ubuntu builds of Firefox and Thunderbird. In order to determine this, please try to recreate the problem in an official Mozilla build of Firefox or Thunderbird. These can be downloaded from the following locations

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There is also XanMod [External Link].

Currently it has the 5.16 series in the edge branch. Soon it should switch to 5.17 series.

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Software center already displays only the snap version.

Also the software center doesn't inform users about pretty much anything besides the installation progres. You don't know what additional packages are installed but ordinary users don't care. They just want the program.

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