If it's to avoid this kind of aberrations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864985 it's totally understandabl

If it's to avoid this kind of aberrations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864985 it's totally understandable, but in practice, it doesn't work that smoothly unfortunately, not to mention the potential vendor lockdown, or as the Mint team phrased it: > If you’re a Fedora user and you want to install Spotify, you’re told to go to https://snapcraft.io/spotify https://snapcraft.io/spotify. Spotify doesn’t distribute RPM packages, appimage, Flatpak or anything useful to a Fedora user who wants to download it, or to a Fedora maintainer who wants to add it to a repository. Fedora users are told to go to what is essentially a commercial store operated by a RedHat competitor where stats tell them their distribution is only 7th best. > We’re in luck, we can still download the .deb. If Spotify stops caring, what do we do? We move to snap because we have to? Will the snap store continue to let people download actual .snap files in the future or will that get locked down ? Will the snap store continue to operate without an Ubuntu One account or will we get vendor-locked ? https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3766 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3766