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I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

snaps are a proprietary vendor-locked format, the only redeeming quality is being able to run them in cli (once Flatpak get that too, there is no valid reason for snaps to exist).

I just find it midly infuriating (if that even is a thing, meaning I hate it but it's not that significant for me to distro hop on my work laptop) to have two "universal" package formats on my system with Canonical shoving the objectively worse one (from a free/libre pov) down my throat...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

(once Flatpak get that too, there is no valid reason for snaps to exist).

They said they will not fix it due to "security concerns"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've used flatpak only once, but I am pretty sure I ran it through the cli. Did I imagine that? i might have imagined that, it was a while ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

no you didn't, you can install flatpak using the terminal but iirc flatpak are mostly made with GUI applications in mind, while snaps support installing command line utils quite well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ah, fair enough, probbaly me misremembering then