 If there's one negative thing that I have to say about Ubuntu, it's that it uses snaps now over the course of the last couple of years I've become more ambivalent towards snaps simply because it's one of those cases of if you don't like it Don't use it. So I don't use them like in this. I absolutely have to I never touch snaps, but a lot of people are Very against the use of snaps and but they want to use Ubuntu. So when Ubuntu or canonical announced this past A couple months or I guess I guess it was about a month ago or so They announced that they were going to basically force although they cooked it as everyone agreed All the flavors to not use flat packs and instead use snaps So across the Ubuntu lineup out of the box snaps would be the main thing to use and It's not that big a deal because it's not as if you can't go and install flat packs You know on your own if you want to It just rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. So of course someone out there decided that they wanted to make an Ubuntu But with flat packs. So today We're gonna be taking a very quick look at a distribution called flat pack remix now Basically as far as I can tell this is just a boot to there. There's nothing Much different about it. I'm gonna show you a little bit of the installation here right now It is the Ubuntu installer. There's nothing different about it The version that they offer right now is based on Ubuntu 22.04 Which is the last LTS and if you were to just download this ISO But now look at the the file name and you just saw the installer you'd think you were just installing Ubuntu and once you got it installed which I have it installed right here as You can see it just looks like Ubuntu. They didn't even change the wallpaper The only thing that is different is that there's actually nothing different actually Well, there is something different if you if you notice there's not a firefox logo there Which is really interesting because I think firefox is actually installed So firefox is usually up there by default, but it wasn't so that seems to be the only change that I can see and Of course, you'd then be wondering what is actually different here. Well, the clue is in the name This is Ubuntu, but without snaps but with flat pack So if we were to open up a terminal here and run flat pack list You'd see that there are actually flat packs installed So LibreOffice is installed as a flat pack Thunderbird is installed as a flat pack Firefox is installed as a flat pack. This is very different, of course Then traditional Ubuntu which installs all of these things out of the box as Snaps well, I'm not sure about Thunderbird and LibreOffice But for sure firefox is installed as a snap on flat pack remix. It's installed as a flat pack So that's the difference. There's literally nothing else here So the question I have to ask and obviously I need to do something in order to make this video longer than four minutes long That's is this something that we really need of course because if you want to have flat packs on regular vanilla Ubuntu all you'd have to do is sudo I mean, you obviously have to spell things right apt install flat pack You'd run that and then you'd have to install the flat hub repository and other than that You'd be ready to go. No the primary advantage that I can see over all of this by having flat pack and flat hub and able out of the box and having Firefox installed as a flat pack out of the box. You're avoiding snaps. That's the primary Advantage here isn't that it isn't that Flat pack is installed. It's that snap isn't installed. So if you were to do snap list snap is actually not installed at all and that is the biggest departure here from Traditional Ubuntu other than that everything else is exactly the same It's just a Ubuntu 22.04 with all the things that that means, you know, it has the traditional gonna desktop You can do all the things you would do in Ubuntu The only difference is of course is that you'd be using flat pack instead of snap Now if you were to go into the software center This is where you'd see another difference I suppose in that the if you weren't where to go to one of the applications you'd see that by default the source is Flat pack or in this case flat hub and that's the case for all of the applications that are offered here you won't see any as far as I'm aware offering of Things from the Ubuntu repository. So there's no debbs here at all as far as I can tell Everything is from flat hub. So this is basically the flat hub store instead of the snap store this is the flat hub store and Obviously, you can still install things from the Ubuntu repository You just have to either enable that repository so that you know software can see it Or you can install it through app and the terminal whatever you wanted to do But everything here by default comes from flat hub. So that's the other difference There's no offering of snaps and by default the Ubuntu repositories Don't really show up in the genome software center. So I think that this is a very Interesting project, but also one that I think probably will get abandoned at some point simply because the changes there aren't so vast and interesting to keep anybody's interest, right and I think that Eventually people just kind of realized that the changes that flat pack remix offers is Something that you can just do with vanilla Ubuntu. It doesn't really necessitate its own distribution I think that this was done for I'm not gonna say it was done for attention, but it was just done to show that was possible, right and For you know for that. It's okay, right? It's there's nothing wrong with doing this It's just that I don't foresee this project being something that is constantly updated in the future. Maybe I'll be wrong but this has all the Hallmark qualities of a distribution that is created once and then never updated again We'll see if that you know it actually changes But the idea here again isn't really that you need a distribution to do this It's that you can just do this with regular Ubuntu if you want to The whole idea of them dictating snaps to everybody is all fine and dandy But it is so easy if you want to to just pull snaps right out of Ubuntu and put flat pack in its place If that's what you want to do. It's a couple lines of code in the Terminal and you're ready to go now obviously does require some Familiarity with the terminal, but there are instructions on many different websites on how to do it There are tools like on snap I think is one that I actually covered in a video not so long ago that you can actually just run and it Will do it for you it would be completely automated So the idea that you can just do this with regular Ubuntu is something that I think that it I think that that's more the idea behind flat pack remixed is that you can do this if you wanted to do it Don't worry that flat pack is being pulled out of Ubuntu because it wasn't ever actually there on most flavors There were some flavors that offered flat hub and flat pack Most of them just stuck with snap and you always had to go through and install it yourself So a distribution that is basically Ubuntu but with flat hub and flat pack about installed by default Interesting but not particularly useful because you could do this with regular Ubuntu But for me personally if I were to use a mood to this might be the one that I would choose simply because I do prefer Flat pack instead of snaps and obviously I'm as a lazy person I would prefer having all of the flat pack and flat hub stuff done for me And I then don't have to go pull snaps out so Maybe this would be the one that I would use I don't know So that's it for this video if you have thoughts on flat pack remixed or anything to do with Ubuntu and their whole Anti flat pack campaign you can leave those in the comment section below. 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