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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by jeroenhd on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:16PM (#36623950)
Canonical sells access to the snap store. It's part of their Ubuntu IoT strategy.

Uploading public applications is free. Uploading proprietary software is a business model.

It also pretty much locks Ubuntu users in, because no other project uses snaps, so if an app chooses snap for their distribution method (certbot, for example) it suddenly becomes a lot easier to just download Ubuntu than it is to install Snap for a foreign platform.

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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by rlpb on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:49PM (#36624346)
> it suddenly becomes a lot easier to just download Ubuntu than it is to install Snap for a foreign platform

That's an exaggeration. It's about as easy to install snap support for a non-Ubuntu as it is to install any other third party app on that platform. And the latter case is exactly what you're trying to achieve by trying to install a third party app on that platform in the first place, so by definition it can't be significantly harder than any alternative method.

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