Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:33:06 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vogq82$20qbu$1@dont-email.me>:

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:51:59 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

I'm not sure why they bothered making Flatpaks and Snaps when AppImages
work pretty much everywhere.

 
I don’t understand the point of any of them. They seem like attempts to
retrofit something that looks like MSI (only slightly better designed)
onto the Linux ecosystem. Why? Clearly it is to woo the proprietary
software developers -- the ones who don’t want to release their source
code to let the distro maintainers worry about packaging.
 
The downside is that each SnapImage/FlatApp/whatever has to carry around
all its dependencies with it, instead of being able to share dependencies
through the package system. The idea that developers, particularly
proprietary developers, can do a better job of keeping these dependencies
up to date than the distro maintainers (whose job it is to do just that),
just seems laughable.

Flatpak and such is okay, but snaps are evil.

There is no way to host your own "snap repository".  It's all controlled
by Canonical.  Rubs me the wrong way.  Same with the Mint maintainers:
by default, snaps are disabled on Linux Mint.

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