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Release notes of an open source app. Someone is pretty mad at Canonical for Snap (programming.dev)

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[–] hunger 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair: snaps can work for all kinds of things all over the stack from the kernel to individual applications, while flatpak just does applications. Canonical is building a lot around those abilities to handle lower level things, so I guess it makes sense for them.

IMHO flatpak does the applications better and more reliably and those are what I personally care for, so I personally stay away from snaps.

[–] pkill 4 points 11 months ago

Fair point. For instance one thing that sucks about flatpaks is that you can't torsocks them