Canonical announced this month that it will launch a trial version of Ubuntu distribution based entirely on Snap next year — All-Snap Desktop, and recently released a mirror image with a capacity of about 12GB, inviting users to experience it.
Users can go to the Ubuntu Core Desktop GitHub page, click the Actions tab, find the compiled version, scroll down to Artifacts, and download the ZIP file.
After the download is complete, the user can decompress it to obtain an image of less than 12GB, which can be flashed into a virtual machine or used to make a USB boot disk.
The All-Snap Desktop release provides developers with an immutable, experimental Snap-based release that complements the existing deb-based release and alleviates some of the pain points in the current release.
Canonical announced that it will launch the All-Snap Desktop version with the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS version in April next year.
Note: The latest test version of All-Snap Desktop released is not perfect enough, and there are errors such as snap portal/permission mismatch and various content missing.
The setup wizard does not add the root user, and you cannot use apt to install applications through the CLI. You can use the Snap Store in the system to install applications.
