Snaps & flatpacks

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 22:14:00 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>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.

See

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2020-September/018782.html

>> 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.

You can install Snaps on Arch Linux, but Snaps are not supported by the
Arch Linux distribution.