• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    50
    arrow-down
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    “Use Snaps”
    “No” (installs .deb)
    “Fuck you, use Snaps”
    (The Snap Store is a proprietary closed-source black-box that updates your snaps without asking and every part of this statement was a deliberate planned feature by Canonical)

    • Square Singer@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      30
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      I mentioned this in the comment you answered to. But as I said, this might be an issue for people that use Linux because they really hate anything that isn’t GPL, but 97% of the people on this planet care more about whether something is simple to use than what license it uses, as evidenced by the market share of Windows, Android, Chromebooks and Apple products.

      Wouldn’t it be better to get some of them to use Ubuntu with snaps than to stay on their proprietary platforms, because packet management sucks and conflicts are basically impossible to solve for someone who’s not a software developer?

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 year ago

        Linus swore that Bitkeeper wouldn’t alter the agreement further, like a mad egotistical movie villain.
        Canonical is very clearly funneling their userbase towards a Snap-only environment (something that already exists as an option).
        As the sole keyholders, and as a for-profit business, what is the next step?

        Is it to maintain a wealth of options, even when that cuts into profit margins? What about when those options are competing products (think Gnome and KDE back in the Unity days)?
        These things just do not make sense from a business perspective, and they will not be necessary once their userbase is locked into the Snap walled garden.

        As to your point about licenses and market share, default non-options and limited choices aren’t compatible with conversations about choice.

        • droans@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 year ago

          How many major distros aren’t run by for-profit entities nowadays? If you want any sort of enterprise use, you need to offer a 24/7 live support plan.

          I guess the big difference is that Canonical is hoping to make money off the home users too.

    • bjorney@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      The Snap Store is a proprietary closed-source black-box

      Every part of the snap store running on your computer is open source.

      that updates your snaps without asking

      If you don’t want your snaps auto-updating, turn auto updates off. snap --help

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I looked into it. You’re right.
        They implemented the ability to permanently hold all automatic updates.
        After five years of debate during which they consistently claimed that the whole point of Snaps is that developers can push whatever, whenever.

    • droans@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ll just use apt to bypass the snaps…

      $ sudo apt install xyz
      Installing snap for xyz...
      

      Okay what the fuck

      • wahming@monyet.cc
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, most people would have held up Unity as an example of that happy medium a couple months ago. All it takes is one dickhead