Mastodawn

omg! ubuntu Jul 6, 2023

Technical stuff aside, a major reason why Flatpak does not get the hate Snap does is because users don't resent it.

There are 2 things people hate: the way things are, and change.

Ubuntu put Snaps on users desktops without asking if they wanted them. They just did it, then closed off ways to opt-out/avoid them (Cf. Firefox).

Forced change fosters resentment.

No distro made Flatpaks default/required/opt-out. Users had time to come to the tech and adopt it on their own terms/needs.

Just IMO.

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Jon Jennings

@omgubuntu
Open source for me has always been about choice.
When I first moved from Windows Vista to Ubuntu 6.06 it freaked me out that there were now 5 different ways to do anything, different commands that overlapped.
Over time I grew to love not being told what to do or locked into any one tool.
Ubuntu's forcing of snaps on everybody went totally against that and is why I left for Debian.

"There are 2 things people hate: the way things are, and change." <--- 🤣