Release notes of an open source app. Someone is pretty mad at Canonical for Snap : programmer

[-] [email protected] 115 points 9 months ago

Good on them. Snap is a plague.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

Why are they even still pushing that nonsense when flatpak at least somewhat gets closer to getting bwrap implemented right?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

Why are they even still pushing that nonsense

It's a for-profit corporation. They only have one goal.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

To be fair: snaps can work for all kinds of things all over the stack from the kernel to individual applications, while flatpak just does applications. Canonical is building a lot around those abilities to handle lower level things, so I guess it makes sense for them.

IMHO flatpak does the applications better and more reliably and those are what I personally care for, so I personally stay away from snaps.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Fair point. For instance one thing that sucks about flatpaks is that you can't torsocks them

[-] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago

What is AFTL? Probably not "Anterior talofibular ligament" as the internet told me

[-] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago

Android File Transfer for Linux. Here's the release note from the OP.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Thanks. I should have linked to that myself, perhaps.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

What's easier to understand: ankle anatomy or Ubuntu publishing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ankle!

[-] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago

Canonical could have done a lot better with the explanation message here. The idea is to push apps towards XDG compliance and the use of things like Portals.

That said, unlike Wayland, portals really aren't there yet from a UX perspective, especially for an app that is heavy on file transfers.I prefer what Flathub does where it puts a nice green checker beside your app for XDG compliance - it's an encouragement, but not an enforcement.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

This post title is misleading. The developer was working with Snap until Canonical didn't allowed it anymore. He's pissed with the policy enforcement which is strictly speaking commercial and as bad as Apple's afaik...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Sorry, could you clarify what you mean? I don't see the difference. Isn't the author complaining about Canonical for the policy enforcement?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Canonical has been taking bad decisions for quite some time now, and this developer was trying to reach Ubuntu users even while probably knowing these. Which makes sense, of course. The point being that this dev's disappointment seems quite specific in these notes (against Snap), and imho he might work again towards shipping their app through Snap if he was allowed to. My comment compares Canonical to Apple, to give some context of where Canonical is at so many other idiosyncrasies (for example, I also heard other bad stuff about their H.R., in particular a way too lengthy hiring process.)

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Having worked with Unix and Linux for 29 years, some of it deep in os security, I strongly believe

canonical is good at hiding the fact they're evil as hell
snap is a bag o shite

Cheers to this guy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Canonical wants to be Microsoft so bad

[+] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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[+] [email protected] -41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Linux: easier to use than Windows🤣

And commiting definitely isn't one of the biggest pains in the ass you could wish on yourself.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

Windows doesn't even have a software repo.

As a worst-case scenario, AFTL could just make you download it from the website and it would be exactly as bad as Windows UX.

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