Want to Try Ubuntu’s All-Snap Desktop? Here’s How
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) Jorge Castro. Ubuntu’s Ken VanDine popped around Jorge’s gaff to show him progress on the all-snap sandboxed desktop effort and Jorge tooted about it at length.
—I know, right: there you were about to congratulate me on my first big scoop™ 🍦 in, what, a decade? Still, other Linux blogs will be relieved they don’t need to acknowledge this site’s existence if covering this news. It’s okay guys, you can pretend you heard about this elsewhere.