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snaps are a proprietary vendor-locked format, the only redeeming quality is being able to run them in cli (once Flatpak get that too, there is no valid reason for snaps to exist).
I just find it midly infuriating (if that even is a thing, meaning I hate it but it's not that significant for me to distro hop on my work laptop) to have two "universal" package formats on my system with Canonical shoving the objectively worse one (from a free/libre pov) down my throat...
They said they will not fix it due to "security concerns"
I've used flatpak only once, but I am pretty sure I ran it through the cli. Did I imagine that? i might have imagined that, it was a while ago
no you didn't, you can install flatpak using the terminal but iirc flatpak are mostly made with GUI applications in mind, while snaps support installing command line utils quite well
Ah, fair enough, probbaly me misremembering then
What utter BS. Stop spreading FUD from others. A simple search would find the source code https://github.com/snapcore/
Snaps are open source, including the store.
...no?
The backend is proprietary and you or other orgs cannot run their own server. It's harcoded to use Canonical's servers for obtaining snaps and their metadata...
seething Ubuntu fans are funny af lol.
Your leash being longer than average doesn't remedy the fact that you're still tied to a pole...
Can I self host the official snap server, and use it with an unmodified client? If not, it's proprietary.