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    The Snap Dish Doesn't Make Sense (lemmy.ca)
    submitted 2 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] kronarbob@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Snaps make sens from the Ubuntu side.

    Only one package to maintain for an application, even if they have different distributions to maintain. If snap is officially supported by the creator of the application, then it's less work for Canonical. Well, it would have make more sens if flatpak didn't exist.

    From user side, it makes way less sens :

    • the closed source application shop
    • if snaps are not officially supported, then Canonical try to create one, and they may be not that great ...
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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'd say snaps are aimed at servers. A big aspect of both Flatpaks and Snaps is the whole sandboxed environment thing.

    I think that's a major reason Canonical flubbed snaps, is they shoved them down the throats of casual users instead of focusing on using them in server situations where you want things more "locked down."

    Once again, it does seem silly that they reinvented the wheel, but I mean, that's actually really common. So common there is an XKCD comic about it. So due to how commonplace such a thing is, it seems weird to attack Canonical so much over it.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    it seems weird to attack Canonical so much over it.

    I mean, on the technical side, sure. Canonical's technical choice is just weird. Plenty of fully open app store environments have almost no competition, because self hosting is still hard work.

    But all of the business reasons - for having a closed proprietary sole app server - go against everything that Canonical used to claim they stood for.

    Canonical's business choice not to open source the snap servers is an open declaration of war against the FOSS community who have previously rallied around them.

    It's like inviting someone into my basement and locking the door with a key as they get to the bottom step. The action isn't illegal, but the probable motive is creepy as fuck. (Maybe I just watch too many horror movies. Lol.)

    [–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Nobody gave a fuck when Launchpad was open sourced. People just demand and demand and when a company does the thing they don't care.

    [–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Yeah, I mean. If I unlock the basement door, I don't suddenly regain all the trust I lost, either.

    (Edit: In my hypothetical example. I cannot stress enough that there is no one trapped in my basement. I just watch too many horror films.)

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

    It's also inaccurate to say that they reinvented the wheel since snaps predate flatpaks.