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Apparently there is no took for the Flatpak community in the community of communities. While I see uptake of Flatpaks, I rarely see anyone pointing at a snap.

• wkat4242 4y ago
  Personally I don't like either unless it's absolutely necessary for third-party software. The dynamic loader can't do its things when lots of different library versions exist and it wastes other resources and space. And it's very much harder to update everything when a vulnerable library exists. This is also the main issue I have with snap. In their attempt to make it ubiquitous, Ubuntu are using it even for the smallest console apps with almost no dependencies.. I've even seen it used for go apps which are statically linked so they really have none. It's just a lot of overhead for no reason then.
• lproven 4y ago
  > no took for the Flatpak community in the community of communities. I can't parse that sentence. Are there typos in it? > Is anyone using Snap (out of free will)? Ubuntu representatives told me at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague last year that their numbers suggest that Snap usage in the real world by Ubuntu users is around 10x more than all Flatpak usage. They tun the only public Snap store. (There are others but they are not public.) Flathub does publish stats, e.g. https://klausenbusk.github.io/flathub-stats/#ref=ca._0ldsk00l.Nestopia&interval=infinity&downloadType=installs%2Bupdates https://klausenbusk.github.io/flathub-stats/#ref=ca._0ldsk00... I have no proof of this, but they seemed confident. I linked to my article about Ubuntu firmly backing Snap in the story at the top of this page, which I wrote.
  • brnt 4y ago
    > I can't parse that sentence. Are there typos in it? Yes, couldnt edit anymore. took->room