It also introduces the concept of modularity to the user experience, where users may experiment with alternative desktop environment snaps while remaining on a highly stable, signed and secure LTS base. The properties inherent to Ubuntu Core such as secure boot, recovery states and hardware backed encryption would bring significant improvements to the security posture of a user’s PC. "Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
Today's blog post lays out some of the potential for Ubuntu Core on the Linux desktop: Ubuntu Core has traditionally been focused on the IoT market and other specialized areas while more recently Canonical engineers have been investigating in Ubuntu Core on the desktop side to serve as an immutable OS for greater reliability, security, and manageability. Ubuntu Core with Snaps has long been Canonical's route for providing an immutable OS. A new blog post today outlines Ubuntu Core usage for an immutable Linux desktop. For next year's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical is planning to offer an Ubuntu Core based immutable desktop OS flavor as an alternative to the traditional Ubuntu Desktop image.
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