• Lena@gregtech.eu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    8 hours ago

    I find snaps quite useful for CLI apps, I’m curious what annoys you about them.

    And yes I understand that the backend not being open source is an issue, but it’s not that important imo. Flathub, for example, could change the code on their backend without notice and screw us over.

    • io@piefed.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 minutes ago

      Ubuntu is owned by a billionair who is calling himself self appointed dictator, they have a long history of forcing their technologies down their users throats ignoring all concerns of the community, which is why it got way less popular and is now mainly doing b2b

      I’m curious what annoys you about them

      if you write apt install firefox on ubuntu, the snap version is installed.

      • Lena@gregtech.eu
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah I know it’s just that the network effect leads to most people simply using flathub