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anti-snap stance is anti-consumer (lemdro.id)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops.

What are your thoughts on this?

EDIT:

Here’s the original comment: https://mastodon.social/@popey/112591863166141029

EDIT 2:

Some clarification for those accusing me of not following the thread or being disingenuous.

Didn't bother to follow the thread?

https://mastodon.social/@popey/112593520847827981

I posted my question here before this particular response from the OP. I asked the question on Lemmy out of interest and wanting to get a wider perspective. I also engaged with the OP on the thread so that I can get their perspective on their stance.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There already is Flatpak. Many proprietary apps are shipped as Snaps, which helps with Flatpak packaging as the binaries can just be packed into a different container.

Snap developers kinda help with making the whole portals, isolated apps stuff work.

But thats about it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Venn diagram of supported apps isn't also a perfect circle. You can't run VPNs as Flatpaks, and Flathub disallows CLI apps from being submitted (because the UX of using a sandboxed CLI app sucks). Snap doesn't have these issues.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    because the UX of using a sandboxed CLI app sucks

    I think it is more because of this issue because as far as I know snaps have some level of sandbox and you can still use CLI apps as you said.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Very interesting read, thanks for the link. This seems like a major shortcoming of flatpak!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah that's solidly it. I use strictly confined CLI snaps all the time. (In fact, I maintain the snaps for a couple of CLI apps.) They work fine as long as the snap has the right plugs.

    But I don't want to have to run flatpak run dev.htop.htop to get to htop.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No there are many CLI apps on Flathub.

    Helix, and others.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Helix opens it's own GUI when you run it. It's not a CLI app in the same sense as git. I'm curious on the others you mention, since as a packager, I've seen firsthand CLI apps being declined (or allowed, but only with a hidden status on flathub.org)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Interesting. Yes I had some other editor too, it opened a new terminal tab.

    There is some flatpak export bin directory where the binaries are, I think you can put that to your PATH and have a pretty good CLI experience.

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