With over 100 applications available in the Snap Store, KDE is by far the biggest publisher of snaps around. What unifies this impressive portfolio is the fact that all of these snaps are made for the x86 platform. Not anymore. Now, don’t panic! The x86 snaps are not going anywhere. But ARM-supported KDE snaps are on the way, and this article will tell you a bit more about this endeavor.
Faster development, new horizons
In the past several years, with the rapid explosion and popularity of small form-factor computers like the Raspberry Pi, the interest, the need, and the requirement for non-Intel architecture application support have grown accordingly in the home and desktop spaces. Today, you can easily flash a Linux desktop image onto an SD card and boot your favorite distro on a Pi board. But desktop operating systems are only as good as the applications that can run on top of them.
ARM support for Linux software is steadily improving. This brings into focus the new application…