Canonical should just drop snap support and focus solely on flatpaks. Snap has no uses anymore.
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Originally posted by ferry View Post
Maybe they should drop the schnapps, sixpacks and just stay with debs.
Flatpak is an open ecosystem and the whole stack is fully open source, if you as a developer dont want to use the primary flathub repo you can easily make your own that can be sideloaded with an infinite number of other repos using the official tooling.
Having a cross-distro package format is good (and i would argue a necessity), but snap should not be that format. The whole linux ecosystem should be behind flatpak which embodies the ideals of the linux community and the philosophy of open source, not a proprietary corpo that wants ultimate control.
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Originally posted by hedonist View Post
Eh nah, flatpak is actually good, snaps suck cus they are a proprietary format and the backend is fully controlled by canonical and is a closed ecosystem.
Flatpak is an open ecosystem and the whole stack is fully open source, if you as a developer dont want to use the primary flathub repo you can easily make your own that can be sideloaded with an infinite number of other repos using the official tooling.
Having a cross-distro package format is good (and i would argue a necessity), but snap should not be that format. The whole linux ecosystem should be behind flatpak which embodies the ideals of the linux community and the philosophy of open source, not a proprietary corpo that wants ultimate control.
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Originally posted by pilino View PostYesterday: Canonical tells us snaps are great because they save packaging work: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps
Today: Canonical reinvents the wheel for the 11th time, builds Thunderbird from source into their snap to get back the benefits of packaging yourself (supporting other architectures, compliance with own standards).
Logical disconnect?
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Originally posted by hedonist View Post
snaps suck cus they are a proprietary format and the backend is fully controlled by canonical and is a closed ecosystem.
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Originally posted by Rovano View Post
> snaps suck cus they are a proprietary format and the backend is fully controlled by canonical and is a closed ecosystem.
You can guess or find on the Internet. Try it. The rest is open. You don't have to use it, but I'm afraid the containers will catch us almost everywhere in the future.
About the "proprietary" things that someone says:
Yes, there is only one official Snap store, Canonical's own Snapcraft. But don't believe the FUD: it's perfectly possible to run your own if you wish. There's nothing proprietary in there, the APIs are documented, and the tools to publish a Snap store online are in Ubuntu's repositories. As we covered a year ago, the maintainer of Ubuntu Unity published his own, called lol, as a proof of concept.
-- https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/...s_drop_flatpak
[P.S.: I had to remove some links of that message because it was "unapproved" in Phoronix.]
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Originally posted by Nth_man View Post
I hope the containers don't catch us almost everywhere in the future.
About the "proprietary" things that someone says:
Yes, there is only one official Snap store, Canonical's own Snapcraft. But don't believe the FUD: it's perfectly possible to run your own if you wish. There's nothing proprietary in there, the APIs are documented, and the tools to publish a Snap store online are in Ubuntu's repositories. As we covered a year ago, the maintainer of Ubuntu Unity published his own, called lol, as a proof of concept.
-- https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/...s_drop_flatpak
[P.S.: I had to remove some links of that message because it was "unapproved" in Phoronix.]
Canonical is a company like SUSE or Red Hat. Something must protect and live from something. Create a business model.
Or does anyone think Linux would have been without these companies where today?
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