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> What are the blocking points? * The infamous forced updates are a business decision, not a technical one. Canonical took a page from Microsoft by taking cont

by curt15 4y ago

> What are the blocking points? * The infamous forced updates are a business decision, not a technical one. Canonical took a page from Microsoft by taking control away from the user only to sell it back in an "enterprise" edition of the product (see their Brand stores). * Applications installed as snaps are slow to start up because they are always stored in compressed form and must be decompressed to run. I don't understand what technical limitation prevents Snap from installing newer versions of an application in parallel with the old one, like how Flatpak updates work.

rlpb 4y ago
> * The infamous forced updates are a business decision, not a technical one. Canonical took a page from Microsoft by taking control away from the user only to sell it back in an "enterprise" edition of the product (see their Brand stores). This is no longer true. You can disable updates for a snap indefinitely: https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#heading--hold https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date#heading--...