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What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

As a generalist I have to learn many concepts and dont have time to delve into any one that deep. Flatpak works and isnt proprietary like snap so I enjoy that. My recent debian+kde installation works well with if. Open discover and install flatpaks as much as you wish.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

isnt proprietary like snap

Is it true that Snap has proprietary server?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Exactly, proprietary.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The Snap Store is run and controlled by Canonical and is not open source. The rest of Snap is open source, meaning the daemon and core software. [emphasis mine] How threatening this is depends on you POV and has been the subject of much discussion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

if the only way to use the open source client, is with a closed source server, is it really open source at all? The platform is the server.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Exactly, proprietary.

[–] TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe 4 points 8 months ago

This isn't threatening in a way that Canonical would hack my computer with it. It's threatening the Linux ecosystem. They created a distro agnostic package manager which is solely controlled by them. In other words they want everyone to use Snap and then vendor lock in everyone into it. "embrace, extend, extinguish"

I honestly wouldn't care if snap was both Canonical proprietary and Ubuntu proprietary but this M$ like strategy sucks.