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0 pointssimion3142y ago0 comments

>Canonical already did that, when they dropped Flatpak support to force people to go through their "Snap Store".

You mean not installing it by default? This does make sense for me personally I never had good experience with flatpacks or snapped desktop apps. Snap CLI tools worked great for me on server.

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Animats2y ago

Then your install instructions start with "first install Flatpak". This is unacceptable for an end user program.

If you use the "Snap Store", you're imprisoned in a walled garden and subject to arbitrary decisions by Canonical, Inc.[1] They also take a cut if you charge for an app.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/legal/developer-terms-and-conditions

simion314OP2y ago

And is Flatpack so hard to install? I use not flatpacks and probably many are like me, why should we get 10 different package managers installed because some minority wants it's prefered one pre-installed.

Anyway I was right, it was FUD, you were referring about not beeing installed by default. Can you maybe do a self-diagnostic and find out why you spread FUD? Would it be nice if I would do the same about Flatpack or your distro? (Do not respond, just analyze this and maybe realize you can be better)

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