Ubuntu is often heralded as the king of beginner-friendly distros, and it more than lives up to its reputation. Its simple setup process, support for most consumer-oriented hardware, and strong ...

Ubuntu Snap isn't the one making poor security choices. Rather, X11's security model is giving Snap packages access to other applications The new Ubuntu distribution is out, along with the new Snap ...

Snap packages on Ubuntu can be bloated and slow. They can waste your storage and seemingly slow down system performance. Installing apps without snap is difficult on Ubuntu. You have much more ...

When Canonical launched Ubuntu 16.04 in April, one of the biggest changes was support for a new way to install applications. But snaps aren’t just for Ubuntu anymore. Canonical has announced that it’s ...

Why? Because Snap enables a single binary package to work perfectly and securely on any Linux desktop, server, cloud or device. According to Olli Ries, head of Canonical's Ubuntu client platform ...

[Update, 2:00 pm ET, May 31: Ubuntu published a blog post about its Ubuntu Core desktop work after this Ars Technica post was published. Noting that Snaps “are a little famous for having some rough ...