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anti-snap stance is anti-consumer (lemdro.id)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/9650372

The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops.

What are your thoughts on this?

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Here’s the original comment: https://mastodon.social/@popey/112591863166141029

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Outside of certbot, I cannot think of anything that requires snapd over flatpak. I think certbot also has a PIP installation method anyways. I think it makes sense for everyone but Canonical to simply disable it or remove it by default. It's not personal, flatpak won the format war outside a few niche programs.

[–] KindaABigDyl 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nextcloud Server

I can only get it to work via snap and on Ubuntu. I've tried Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora, and NixOS for distro and both manual and snap. It doesn't even have a flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Use the OCI through podman or docker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you need snapd, install it. It's not like I now consider you a degenerate for using snaps. It's just a packaging format. I just understand why only Canonical enables it by default. If anything its annoying there is a handful of apps that provide snaps but not flatpaks.