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I've used Ubuntu Core for a few things. I've used it for my nextcloud + syncthing + home assistant server; an abandoned photo booth project; and a plug and play
by dylan-m 5y ago
I've used Ubuntu Core for a few things. I've used it for my nextcloud + syncthing + home assistant server; an abandoned photo booth project; and a plug and play slideshow thing using a web app in kiosk mode (hilariously involving the remnants of Mir, which is now a Wayland compositor?).
I think snaps are the wrong idea for the desktop and I hope Canonical finds a way to coexist with flatpak instead of whatever it is they think they're doing. But for Ubuntu Core in particular, where everything is working towards a headless, low maintenance kind of system, it really does shine.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoDo you have any recommended reading on Ubuntu Core? The docs seem good but there's little content online for it. In particular I've been trying to understand how to get GPIO and I2C etc working on the Pi with Core and then allowing the snap access.
- nix23 5y agoI would recommend using openSUSE MicroOS.
- dylan-m 5y agoAh, I wish I could recommend some documentation outside the Ubuntu Core docs, but my learning process was pretty much Googling ad nauseam - usually ending up on https://forum.snapcraft.io https://forum.snapcraft.io, which is rarely a good sign :( For the stuff I did, past experience with flatpak helped a bit, and there have been a few instances where I've created bind mounts to poke sandbox holes where I need them. I haven't had an excuse to play with lower level stuff like GPIO, unfortunately, but I can imagine some stable documentation would be rather useful there.