• Dkiscoo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I keep hearing people complain about snaps but I don’t know the good or bad about them

    • daniskarma@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Worse thing about snaps is that the server that provides them is propietary and owned by canonical.

      Open source people tend not to like when things are not open source.

      Other than that they are like flakpacks but blessed by canonical. Sometimes they are more curated or there’s more official releases on snaps that flakpacks.

      Both are a way to deliver software without falling in dependency hell and kind of isolated and more secure(?).

      Also is a way to wait 10-15 seconds to launch a simple app so there’s that.

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      7 months ago

      Good - Snaps are more advanced flat packs

      Bad - Made by the company that makes Ubuntu