14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu 20.04 was officially announced a few weeks ago with major improvements, but at the same time, it looks like it also introduces a series of inconsistencies that ruin the whole experience for some.
More specifically, users are now complaining that the store isn’t working exactly like they expected it to work in the first place, with a growing thread of reddit grouping messages from users who encountered various problems when trying to install snaps.
One of the common annoyances, and which I also encountered on my Ubuntu 20.04 laptop, concerns the behavior of the store when a new snap is being installed. There’s no indication regarding the progress of the installation after clicking the install button, and trying to click the same button again returns an error that the process is still under way.
As some have suggested on the linked reddit thread, a workaround is sticking with the snap changes command for the whole thing, but a percentage bar would still be missing.
Not much you can do right now
Needless to say, others have already removed the snap store due to this poor experience after the upgrade.
“I don't have anything against snap, but the bundled snap store seems to just be completely broken. I uninstalled it and replaced it with sudo apt install gnome-software, which seems to be a lot less buggy and also gets you back flatpak support,” someone says on reddit.
To remove the snap store, you can just use the following command:
sudo snap remove snap-store
Hopefully, the experience with the store in Ubuntu 20.04 would be further refined, especially as the release overall brings so many cool changes. As some confirm in the reddit discussion, nothing seems to work to make the store run properly, as even reinstalling the operating system completely fails to do the trick for the time being.