Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
by quantummkv on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:32AM
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The main point here is that Snaps take away control from the user. The user has no control over how and when apps update. The backend for snaps is proprietary and completely in control of Canonical. If they decide to shove ads down through Snaps, they can at any time. And the whole hijacking of the chromium apt package to backdoor in snaps without user consent is a move straight out of the Microsoft playbook
This feels very natural to what Apple, Google and Microsoft do on their OS. But Canonical seems to have forgotten that such behavior is what drove a lot of people to Linux. It is never going to be accepted. Nor it should be.
Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
by securityfreak on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:52PM
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Very well said! I am afraid there is a prophecy in your description. I have started moving all of our infrastructure away from Ubuntu at work. This sounds horrible. 2020 has been bad enough for one year.
> Do you guys really need to keep throwing blogs at something which isn't going away and is useful to users? How is this useful in anyway?
Personally I find snaps a very disappointing solution to a very interesting problem.
> Do you guys really need to keep throwing blogs at something which isn't going away and is useful to users?
Do you really want the answer to that...
There are people who would loudly insist that there should be nothing but a kernel and Stallman's FAQ.
Re:Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:02PM
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> There are people who would loudly insist that there should be nothing but a kernel and Stallman's FAQ.
Literally nobody says that. Not even RMS says that.
systemd went away. Oh, wait...
They have wide spread adoption with almost 10x the install base of Flatpaks.
Do you guys really need to keep throwing blogs at something which isn't going away and is useful to users? How is this useful in anyway? Canonical isn't suddenly going to give up on this, and I don't even want them to.