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@Juco7L7 Juco7L7 released this 20 Oct 00:24

Carapace, the SnapOS store, and an installer that can keep your other systems.

Carapace. SnapOS has its own store now. The first page has a featured program, the popular ones, coloured categories and a row of programs for each category (118 picked programs). The search looks through all of Nix's roughly 27 thousand programs while you type. Installing asks for your password, adds the program to /etc/snapos and builds the next system while Snappy picks flowers, climbs a mountain, swims, sits by a campfire, goes fishing or flies a kite. Anything installed can be removed or undone with snapos rollback.

Every program in Nix. Unfree programs can be installed too: Steam, Discord, Spotify, VS Code and more. Steam's 32-bit graphics libraries are on for x86 PCs.

Partitions chosen by hand. After the disk, the installer asks whether to erase it or to let you choose the partitions. Choosing keeps everything else (Windows, another system, your files): you can open cfdisk to make room, pick the partition for SnapOS, share the EFI partition and add a /home partition. GRUB lists the other systems at start. Thanks to psyclonepman for the suggestion (issue #1).

Flatpak is a pack now. GNOME Software and Flathub leave the default system (Discover too, on Plasma); snapos.packs.flatpak.enable = true; brings Flatpak back. Systems updated from 2.6 keep the GNOME Software they have.

Everything from 2.6.1 stays. Update with snapos update; new installs use the images on the SnapOS releases page.