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unsnap
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Need help in Kubuntu: Firefox won't launch. Something about a snap slot not being connected
Might I suggest unsnap?
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Snap to Flatpak script
This seems very similar to Alan Pope's unsnap project - Is there anything you're doing differently? https://github.com/popey/unsnap
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has snapd been obsoleted/ is it now deprecated?
If you are referring to this project, then I'm sorry to tell you that you got it wrong.
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Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
Reminder that if you don't like snaps, it's pretty easy to migrate away using: https://github.com/popey/unsnap
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How do I get rid of this snap stuff?
Might check out https://github.com/popey/unsnap
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Kubuntu is a great operating system.
You can just use this to remove snap tho: https://github.com/popey/unsnap
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows 10 downloads as part of planned 2025 shutdown | Sales will be cut off on January 31st.
How? Should I follow these instructions? https://github.com/popey/unsnap
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i use manjaro, convince me to switch
The best Debian/Ubuntu-based distro that uses Plasma would probably be Kubuntu with unsnap if you're not a snap fan.
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Distro to daily drive for old laptop
If snaps are your only issue, don't leave Ubuntu. Look into unsnap (https://github.com/popey/unsnap). Determine if your lag is snap related.
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Why is everyone all of a sudden using Fedora?
Snaps are so bad that one of Canonical's star employees left and tweeted about snap issues saying that "They get ignored or dismissed. The CTO flat doesn't believe there's a problem. The team is understanffed and there is no motivation from IoT and enterprise focused people to fix desktop problems. Been trying from the inside for years. I gave up hope and left.". Same guy later went on to create the unsnap repo on github which helps users find replacements for their snap packages among flatpaks etc - and this wasn't a "jaded employee" thing so much as him trying to look out for users' best interests. Good on him.
mold
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I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain.
- The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust attack you’ll understand why.
- Dev tools in every language ecosystem are almost always free, unless they involve some kind of hosting. People aren’t used to opening their wallets. Look the experience of the guy who built the mold linker(https://github.com/rui314/mold). Far superior to the state of art, improves incremental compiles a lot, widely applicable across ecosystems (C, C++, Rust), CPU architectures and Operating Systems. You don’t even have to modify your compiler, just need to point to his linker. He’s even giving it away for free for personal use. But still, almost no one uses it. The inertia of the established options is really high.
- It’s not complex enough. Think about the complexity involved in the cranelift backend. No one can seriously recreate the efforts of bjorn3. If we could have, we would have. But the idea idea here can be recreated, especially by the experts who already built incremental compilation into rustc.
- But if your solution is truly complex, like the parallel frontend, the burden of maintaining a fork would be too high. You’d have to spend all your time rebasing.
Again I’m not trying to discourage you, just stating the difficulties of making a business in the dev tools space. You would be better off contributing this excellent work to the community and trying a different tack.
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Mold Course
I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)
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Monetizing Developer Tools
I assume this submission is trying to highlight the specific message (2023-01-24) : https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028...
Fyi... the author wrote a more expansive blog post about selling dev tools a few months later (2023-06-06) and there was a related HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016
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mold 2.1.0 - rui314/mold
Loongson's LoongArch CPU has been supported. (03b1a1c)
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Mold 2.0.0
I'm amazed at how quickly the author responds to requests: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1057
From the report to the fix in less than two days.
I'm not sure how competitive it will be with lld, especially if we consider ThinLTO (which takes multiple minutes on 64-core machine) - it can make the advantages of mold insignificant.
- Mold 2.0 released - MIT license
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Linking many files significantly increases build time. Is there an editor that allows you to write a single file but present the file to the screen as multiple 'virtual' files for better organization?
What other solutions have you tried for the problem of slow linking? You haven't even said which linker and what flags you're using. I haven't actually tried it, but the author of gold has an even faster linker called mold: https://github.com/rui314/mold
- Design and Implementation of the Mold Linker
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Apple's new library format combines the best of dynamic and static
> Mold did it first, though: https://github.com/rui314/mold
Before LLD?
What are some alternatives?
snap-to-flatpak - A BASH script that removes Snap from an Ubuntu system and replaces it with Flatpak
zld - A faster version of Apple's linker
custom-desktop - The custom Ubuntu desktop system
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
deb-get - apt-get for .debs published via GitHub or direct download 📦
osxcross - Mac OS X cross toolchain for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Android (Termux)
nix-bubblewrap - Nix - bubblewrap integration (mirror)
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
NoFoxGiven - Automated script to remove all traces of Snap from a fresh install, including reinstalling a standalone version of Firefox. Designed for Kubuntu.
chibicc - A small C compiler
org.chromium.Chromium
sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.