Snaps & flatpacks

[Tom H]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:35 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 19:18:02 -0500, Jim wrote:


>> So would this be a limitation of flatpacks or how this one was
>> implemented and if it was a limitation of flatpacks could a snap
>> have the same problem?
>
> just install and test it ;).
>
> If you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists you will notice that there
> is quasi zero acceptance for snaps and just a little bit of
> acceptance for flatpacks. Both are immature and especially the
> immature sandbox approach does cause the issues you described.
> However, snaps do not just suffer from the sandbox issue.
>
> A Claws developer:
> https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2020-July/026474.html
>
> I've seen similar comments on most Linux related mailing lists I join.
> Compared to that bad critic Flatpaks get way better, but still bad
> critics, too. There are a few good critics for both, but the vast
> majority of critics is everything else but pro.

No one ever likes change. There's no technical reason to claim that
snap-installed apps are worse than apt/dnf/emerge/pacman-installed
apps.


> On https://snapcraft.io/ there's a list of Linux distributions
> creating the impression that those distributions support snaps. At
> least "Arch Linux" does not, never did and most unlikely ever will.
> That it's possible to use it, doesn't mean that it's supported.

Are you saying that snaps can't be installed on Arch or other cited
distributions? I doubt that snapcraft.io would lie about this.