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Kubuntu 24.10 Released, KDE Snaps at 24.08.2, and I lived to tell you about it! - Scarlett Gately Moore (www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That might be a good solution for you, yes.

I don't have anything against Snap itself. It's the exclusivity to snaps and nothing else that bothers me. Like, you don't have a choice but to use snap for some packages.

While it may be a good solution for your scenario, but it's not for mine. I should be able to decide if I want a software as a snap or not. And if someone wants to use snaps exclusively, there should be some configuration to set to do this. It shouldn't be imposed on the end users.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the exclusivity to snaps and nothing else that bothers me. Like, you don't have a choice but to use snap for some packages.

Seems like a weird take. Before snap came along this was true to the same extent of Ubuntu with Debs. The fact that they're migrating some of the packages they maintain (that also happen to be the trickier ones to maintain as deb files) to snaps doesn't prevent you from getting another repo that has the package as a deb and using that any more than your distro not having the latest version of an app prevents you from downloading and building a tarball.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's if the maintainer of that software provides the repo. Like Firefox. But that's not always the case.

And I don't see why I should be the one that has to take the extra steps to add these to my sources when having the choice should be the default OOTB.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I simply don't understand how this is any different from the fact that Ubuntu doesn't include RPMs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's totally different.

Do you even know what's the difference between a .deb/.rpm and a snap?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm quite aware. I'm currently a maintainer of packages in all three formats.