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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSnap out of it
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    28 days ago

    Interesting, didn’t know it was feasible to make the distribution open.

    That doesn’t give me much to complain about in theory, but canonical has lost way too much good faith to give people a reason to keep open snap distribution going for free. They should definitely consider hosting an open store just to get people on board again.


  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSnap out of it
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    28 days ago

    Nothing in theory makes that an issue of flatpaks and snap, just that both rely on different means to interact with the host system that have been woefully slow to implement. If enough protocols are developed a flatpak or snap should be as capable as a native app with the safety benefits for free.


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    28 days ago

    Honestly if not for the convoluted Linux FS layout, debs would be pretty serviceable and aren’t really different to the Windows solution. The fs layout makes installations way too fickle to clashing with other applications.

    That and dependency hell, which distros should have never been allowed to touch beyond the core dependencies required to get your desktop running.


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    28 days ago

    Nothing necessarily at the tech level. They’re more capable than Appimages or flatpaks to the point that you can use it to build a reproducible system hardened against tampering or defective updates.

    The downside is that it’s controlled entirely by canonical, has limited abilities (if any?) for hosting storefronts/packages outside of their ecosystem, and said ecosystem is insecure and has already allowed multiple waves of malicious apps to reach end users because of poor moderation of listings masquerading as legitimate versions.

    Canonical has also been increasingly hostile to flatpaks - removing it from Ubuntu and derivatives by default to push users towards snap.

    The whole loopfs thing is just an annoyance, but the aggressive posturing by canonical as well as the closed nature of the storefront that has led to malicious attacks on end users is enough to give it more than a few haters.


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    28 days ago

    I much prefer our modern package format solutions:

    1. sudo apt install something
    2. open
    3. wtf this is like 6 months old
    4. find a PPA hosted by someone claiming to have packaged the new version
    5. search how to install PPAs
    6. sudo apt <I forgot>
    7. install app finally
    8. wtf it’s 2 months old and full of bugs
    9. repo tells me to report to original developer
    10. report bugs
    11. mfw original dev breaks my kneecaps for reporting a bug in out of date versions packed with weird dependency constraints they can’t recreate