Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 08:22:19 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

I have to admit that during the short period of time during which I used
Ubuntu recently, I was surprised that just about everything I was
running was a Snap. For security reasons, it made sense (the browser,
the e-mail client), but certain other things would have run just as well
if they were simple .deb files. They want to make Snap a standard, that
much is clear, and they're taking advantage of the distribution's
popularity to do so.

Flatpak, at least on Fedora, isn't quite as aggressive. Some of the snap
stuff is surprising.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/new-wikitok-web-app-allows-
infinite-tiktok-style-scroll-of-wikipedia/

I cloned the GitHub project. It uses bun which is a snap rather than
a .deb.   node.js is also a snap.

otoh, on Ubuntu the Arduino IDE v2 is an AppImage which doesn't integrate
that well. On Fedora it's a flatpak and shows up on the menu as expected.

So far I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other. I haven't seen
the performance problems some have reported.