The controversy around snaps is growing :-(

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 4 May 2020 19:35:54 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>It may not make sense to you, but without apparmor or selinux, Snaps
>are well-confined.

It's not important to me. I'm using Linux for some tasks, while I plan
to test again, if FreeBSD might be the better choice for my needs. For
a lot of tasks I migrated to iPadOS.  Mainly for pro-audio, which on
the first place might sound unreasonable, but it isn't, apart from
some iPadOS pitfalls, the proprietary audio software is way beyond
Linux audio software. The second reason for this migration are graphic
apps, already self-explaining in the first place ... my iPadPro has got
a 12.9 inch touch screen and the Apple Pencil 2 is a class of it's own.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still pro Linux, even valued members of the
FreeBSD community endorsed my opinions pro Linux on
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org against an Anti-Linux troll last month.

On Sun, 3 May 2020 20:56:47 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:33 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some of my colleagues in the Linux business have commented on the
>> intrusiveness of snaps.  
>
>More than Android and iOS apps?

Actually for developers iOS and iPadOS are a pain, while Android is
completely unusable for pro audio, _but_ regarding pro audio, Linux is
unable to hold a candle to iOS and iPadOS. Anybody claiming the
contrary, is not a good professional audio engineer.

A jackd audio server snap is probaply more than a pain, than the iOS
and iPadOS pitfalls could cause. Fortunately jackd by almost all distro
packages is superb. A problem could be a helper, such as QjackCtl, an
up to date version most likely requires dependencies, not provided by a
release of a release model distro. Years back I tried to build a snap
for an Ubuntu release, but it failed due to the snap pitfalls. Actually
jackd was available for iOS, too, but must be discontinued, OTOH
pro-audio developers were able to provide other solutions for iOS and
iPadOS, solutions that are missing for Linux, by classic package
repositories and way more catastrophic by snaps and Co..