Ubuntu 20.04 is a GNOME distro, running the GNOME 3.26.1 stack, but Canonical always has to do something different. To fight Flatpak they cooked up a thing called Snappy, which these days seems to be called Snap. I’m not saying Snap is a bad idea. I’m saying Snap as it exists now is bad, and Canonical has gone back to its old tricks: Force-bundling and pushing it while the ecosystem is immature and the performance and features are both mediocre. Remember Unity? Late-stage Unity was actually pretty decent, but the early forced push still earned it a mountain of hate.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS finally dropped, and I’ve finished upgrading (read: wiped Fedora 32 and reinstalled). Overall this release is well worth using, and the bugs are few. It’s way less of a hassle than previous setups, but there’s still stuff to do. Here’s the rundown.