avidamoeba

avidamoeba, 1 year ago

Isn’t Fedora’s support window a bit over a year per release? Would you want to deal with upgrades every year?

avidamoeba, 1 year ago

We won’t stop using the market till it starts working.

avidamoeba, 1 year ago

Requires login. Any word on when it’s making in stable?

avidamoeba, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Flatpak cannot do what’s discussed in the article. Snap can and it was started prior to Flatpak. If Flatpak was able to do what Snap can, you’d have half a point.

avidamoeba, 1 year ago

I’m pretty excited about it. It’s a much cleaner solution to the problem immutable OSes are trying to solve. Dare I say it’s better even than the Android model because it covers the whole stack with a single system.

avidamoeba, 1 year ago

Unlike desktop environments where there were equivalent alternatives to Unity, Flatpak isn’t an alternative to Snap that can deliver an equivalent solution. You can’t build an OS on top of Flatpak. This is why I think that if Snap makes the lives of Canonical developers easier, they’ll keep maintaining it. We’ll know if Ubuntu Core Desktop becomes a mainstream flavor or the default one. I think there is a commercial value of it in the enterprise world where tight control of the OS and upgrade robustness are needed. In this kind of a future Snap will have a long and productive life. If it ends up being used only for desktop apps which Flatpak covers, it may fall by the wayside as you suggested.