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Cassidy James :gg: :fh:
@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

If I want to test out some Snap Store stuff but am on Fedora Silverblue… should I even attempt that, or just spin up an Ubuntu VM/install Ubuntu on another machine?

To be clear about my use case: I’m not looking to actually use Snap apps on alongside other apps on Silverblue, so nice integration is not important; I just want to check out how things are presented and progressing over in the world of the Snap store/App Center thing.

#fedora #silverblue #FedoraSilverblue #snapcraft #Ubuntu #Linux

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Leaflet
@that_leaflet@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cassidy To those saying toolbox, that won’t work well due to snap expecting /home, not /var/home. Using a podman container without filesystem integration may work better.

I maintain a popular snap package but don’t daily Ubuntu. Whenever I do an update, I test in a VM or in Ubuntu live ISO.

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Lyndon Lapierre
@ljlapierre@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cassidy +1 to container! I've never used toolbox, but I have some GUI apps that aren't packaged in Nix that work flawlessly on an Ubuntu container using distrobox.
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Miguel Torrellas
@migtorr@mastodon.org.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cassidy give it a try with an Ubuntu toolbox container?
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Diogo Constantino
@DiogoConstantino@masto.pt replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@cassidy you don't have to justify yourself to the Internet.
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Cassidy James :gg: :fh:
@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@DiogoConstantino not justifying myself, just clarifying my use case; it’s a very different problem to want to integrate the Snap store and installed Snap apps nicely alongside my other apps. I’m not interested in that angle, I’m just wondering what the easiest/best way to get from not having the Snap store to poking around in it would be, given I’m on Silverblue. :)

I reworded the original post a bit to be more clear!

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