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Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They kinda suck. They take a long time to launch
They are in practice proprietary to Ubuntu so they are not really FOSS
The draw of Ubuntu it is was based on Debian Testing and therefor pretty stable.
It's Yet Another Containerization stack. We already have flatpack, app image, chroot jails and more.

Why would a serious user want a psuedo proprietary Nth app containerization platform that sidesteps a serious incubation chain and has poor performance?

[–] MrFagtron9000 1 points 2 years ago

So why do people like flatpacks more than snaps?

Are snaps really proprietary as in they aren't open source and Ubuntu would have to license it to someone else to use?

Are snaps technically inferior in some way?

What's an incubation chain?

Why can't snaps and flatpack just coexist with no particular one winning?

One more... I thought app image already sort of lost this battle to flatpack and snaps? Or is app image that thing that will let you just launch a program immediately like you can launch a .exe file on Windows?