IgnacioUbuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently)
CassiniWardenI’ve been using more and more flatpaks lately on arch and fedora based distros, i have no idea how snaps compare but seems similar? Seems an odd push from Ubuntu, but could make more sense than deb packages for non techy users perhaps?
ISMETAA big issue for me with snap is, that the server side software is proprietary. So it really really does feel like they are trying for lock-in
Avid AmoebaThe server side is fairly trivial and has already been prototyped separately.
If it is trivial, why is Canonical keeping it proprietary?
Because it’s extra work to make it open source as well as few outside of Canonical are interested in contributing. In that case that work is better spent on other, higher priority items. My guess is that they’ve gauged that the cloud end being open source won’t move the needle on who uses Snap and Ubuntu so they’ve deemed it low priority. Personally I’m using Ubuntu and therefore Canonical has root on my system. Given I can implement a cloud end for Snap, it bares very little importance that today the cloud end isn’t open source since it’s run by the folks that have root on my system and supply all other packages on my system. In fact we don’t know what the cloud end for the apt repos is. :)