Want to Try Ubuntu’s All-Snap Desktop? Here’s How

Canonical recently confirmed its intentions to launch an all-snap Ubuntu desktop image next year — but you don’t have to wait until then to try it out. If you scoot along to the Ubuntu Core Desktop GitHub page, check out the actions tab, find a (completed) build job, then scroll down to the ‘artefacts’ you’ll see a ZIP. Download and extract the ZIP, then extract the tarball inside. Et voila: a ~12GB image you can boot in a VM1 or flash to a USB drive (16GB+). All of this is public knowledge thanks to ex-Canonical employee (and immutable distro champion) […]

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