Move to the Snap package format
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As
mrmidnight
said, deb and rpm can be still the main packages (until snap is widely adopted).im gonna stick my neck out and say there will never be a day that snap is so widely adopted that deb and rpm are discarded in favor of snap.
its not even clear right now if snap will end up being the betamax to flatpaks vhs.
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@Dimspace Why wouldn't you want to auto-update your browser? security updates should be applied as soon as they are released, right?
not always. countless reasons why not, you only have to look at recent changes made by firefox or chrome that caused upset to users from security or privacy pov's to see why we should always have the choice to upgrade. or regressions if you are running preview versions of browsers.
web browser is probabl.y the one thing above all i dont want autoupdating until ive had a read of the changelog
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@ruario with the current availability and state of
Flatpak
andSnap
, I would be interested in the benefits considering the Vivaldi use case for favouring the later.I was under the impression that
Flatpak
has (now) wider distribution, no restriction to a central Ubuntu repository, less system(d) dependencies and is (easier?) usable for unpriviledged users. -
@becm heres a good overview of snap v flat pak availability in distro's repos https://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/adoption-of-flatpak-vs-snap-2018-edition/
outside of ubuntu snap is pretty poorly supported
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I voted for Vivaldi snap package because the snap sandboxing is quite stable compare to other packages.
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you said firejail needs some tweaking and I don't think all linux users/noobs like tweaking so much. That is why snap is quite famous and simple. Although, I admitted snap is quite ram and space consuming
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@guigirl I am not against the proprietary platform or anything. But, for a technical perspective, I agreed flatpak is better than snap because flatpak can share dependencies with other flatpak apps. So, we can save some spaces on this occasion.
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devs gonna do what devs gonna do; but my opinion on snaps is they are unwelcome and un-needed.
It doesn't offend my existence or anything if that tickles their fancy; but RPMs, DEBs, Tarballs, Flatpak, AppImage, are all better than Snaps.
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