[ale] Canonical and Snaps

[Chuck Payne]

I prefer flatpak, I am having better luck with them.

On Tue, May 2, 2023, 4:46 PM Lnx Gnome via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Oh, you love snap+NFS as much as I do.
> I would not be surprised if the economics around their solutions is also a
> driver for them.
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> On 4/24/23 23:17, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
>> >
>> > If we ever met again I thought to do a talk for the group on these
>> > new boards. I've been moving away from openSUSE to Armbian ( Debian )
>> > because of the easy and the fact it runs on most everything.  Still
>> > hate Ubuntu ( Sorry DJPfulio).
>>
>> I'm moving away from Ubuntu to avoid snap packages which have screwed me
>> a few times and don't work with HOME directories that aren't under /home/
>> ... like every NFS HOME I've had the last 25+ yrs.  The lack of local
>> control really will be the downfall for Ubuntu in corporate environments if
>> they continue to push snaps without correcting that huge problem.
>>
>> That and their lack of a native LDAP integration (not tied to MS-AD).
>> They should be embarrassed about that. Shocking to me that every Ubuntu
>> system doesn't make integrating to LDAP for centralized account management
>> trivial these days.
>>
>> BTW, my main desktop has been Mint for a few months.  There are a few
>> snap packages that do make things easy and secure for servers, so I'm not
>> 100% anti-snap. I dislike having to fight distros that want to force things
>> that I don't want, however.
>>
>> I hope that Canonical figures all this out before too many people are
>> forced to leave.  OTOH, they do all this work and give it away to nearly
>> everyone, so who is to say that their vision of the future isn't more
>> correct than what I think matters?
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