Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap

I am forced to use Ubuntu 24.04 on my work laptop because that's the only Linux my company supports (and I refused to use a MacBook). Desktop experience is quite horrible and buggy compared to Fedora with up-to-date KDE Plasma on my own laptop. Quite unfortunate that both of the big players - Red Hat and Ubuntu default to GNOME. What is giving hope though that Valve made the correct choice for the Steam deck desktop mode.

Their insistence on Snap over Flatpak is just confusing the ecosystem, not helping it. I get it's a lock-in thing for them (Snap is locked to Canonical's proprietary store and only allows Ubuntu runtimes) but that's a harmful thing to do.

There's nothing in there that interests me. I love it.

I want my OS updates to be boring. Granted I'm using Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) so the Gnome stuff has nothing to do with my use, but the fact that there is nothing there that I have to fix or anticipate or work around or develop a new workflow for is terrific. That's what I love about the Ubuntu family - the last time I had a major upheaval with my desktop system was the year after KDE 4.0 was released... I think over a decade and a half ago. I really have not had to think about my desktop since.

>> Ubuntu on WSL

I used this for a long time and still do sometimes. However, Arch works well enough now that I don't need to bother with Windows anymore. It is much more efficient for working with containers as there is no VM involved.

> constant focus for us is making applications packaged as snap feel fully native.

> laying the groundwork

So with constant focus, how many more years before the feeling is reached on top of that groundwork . The map is rather fuzzy

Alright PopOS team... time to get cosmic out the door.

I've officially missed a whole cycle!

jkjk, thanks for the hard work, I'll wait as long as it takes.