The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops.

What are your thoughts on this?

EDIT:

Here’s the original comment: https://mastodon.social/@popey/112591863166141029

EDIT 2:

Some clarification for those accusing me of not following the thread or being disingenuous.

Didn’t bother to follow the thread?

https://mastodon.social/@popey/112593520847827981

I posted my question here before this particular response from the OP. I asked the question on Lemmy out of interest and wanting to get a wider perspective. I also engaged with the OP on the thread so that I can get their perspective on their stance.

  • @[email protected]
    9•7 months ago

    The Venn diagram of supported apps isn’t also a perfect circle. You can’t run VPNs as Flatpaks, and Flathub disallows CLI apps from being submitted (because the UX of using a sandboxed CLI app sucks). Snap doesn’t have these issues.

    • @[email protected]
      5•7 months ago

      because the UX of using a sandboxed CLI app sucks

      I think it is more because of this issue because as far as I know snaps have some level of sandbox and you can still use CLI apps as you said.

      • @[email protected]
        8•7 months ago

        Helix opens it’s own GUI when you run it. It’s not a CLI app in the same sense as git. I’m curious on the others you mention, since as a packager, I’ve seen firsthand CLI apps being declined (or allowed, but only with a hidden status on flathub.org)

        • boredsquirrel
          3•7 months ago

          Interesting. Yes I had some other editor too, it opened a new terminal tab.

          There is some flatpak export bin directory where the binaries are, I think you can put that to your PATH and have a pretty good CLI experience.