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@@omgubuntu outside of #Ubuntu who actually uses snap? I give them credit for not giving up on yet another tech stack, but why the hell do they constantly have to try to force their own stuff?
Peter Kal@ozoned @omgubuntu
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@peterkal @omgubuntu I'm talking about active development, including it in the base image, etc. Not all the work Canonical did to get snap everyone and some folks on those distros use it.
The real underlying question is, why, once again, is Canonical attempting to go their own route? There's seems to be only one answer to why they're always doing this and that's control. As seen by the fact only they can run a snap store.
The real underlying question is, why, once again, is Canonical attempting to go their own route? There's seems to be only one answer to why they're always doing this and that's control. As seen by the fact only they can run a snap store.
@ozoned @omgubuntu
Whatever distro you are using its creators have control over the repos, Gnome and whoever runs Flathub has control on flathub. That control drama is not justified.
I think what many people don't get is that SnapStore is gigantic. It's responsible for updating your robot, your smarthome appliance, your GUI/CLI apps on your desktop and your mastodon server.
It takes tens/hundred employees to run this thing.
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Whatever distro you are using its creators have control over the repos, Gnome and whoever runs Flathub has control on flathub. That control drama is not justified.
I think what many people don't get is that SnapStore is gigantic. It's responsible for updating your robot, your smarthome appliance, your GUI/CLI apps on your desktop and your mastodon server.
It takes tens/hundred employees to run this thing.
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@ozoned @omgubuntu
Also, you can create a snap repo of your own, is not hard. Canonical has made examples of communication protocols in the past(I think), and Rudra the creator of Ubuntu Unity has made a proof-of-work project
But also I don't think that decentralization is the way to go for app distribution, many are happy about the fact that flatpaks are decent. but yet most people will never use something more than Flathub
Also, you can create a snap repo of your own, is not hard. Canonical has made examples of communication protocols in the past(I think), and Rudra the creator of Ubuntu Unity has made a proof-of-work project
But also I don't think that decentralization is the way to go for app distribution, many are happy about the fact that flatpaks are decent. but yet most people will never use something more than Flathub
@peterkal imo decentralization is the only way to go as we have seen time and time and time again when a project or company has too much control they'll justify anything including thinking they're the only ones that can handle X, because they're the only ones with knowledge and experience.
And Fedora already runs their own flatpak repo so they can make sure things work nicely. Other distros do as well.
And Fedora already runs their own flatpak repo so they can make sure things work nicely. Other distros do as well.
@peterkal every company wants control of a market. It's naive to think otherwise. And it shouldn't matter how complex it is or whether someone won't ever set one up, they're supposed to be an open source company and if they want to act like a leader in open source then they should lead by example. Any company thinking they're the only ones that can handle X are bad actors and shouldn't have our trust. This also goes for Red Hat.
@peterkal @omgubuntu this also doesn't give a number of users. It's just a comparative line graph per distro. If the first is 10 users, yes I understand it's way more, then the rest are fractions.