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The Snap Store is controlled by one single entity, as is the Snap project itself. These things make it impossible that many other distros can use it.
by PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
The Snap Store is controlled by one single entity, as is the Snap project itself. These things make it impossible that many other distros can use it.
- lproven 3y agoComparison: the Mozilla website is controlled by Mozilla and Firefox users can't edit or copy www.mozilla.org. Therefore Mozilla Firefox is closed source! The Snap store is Ubuntu proprietary, yes. But that doesn't matter. You don't need to use it. You can build and sign your own snaps, distribute them yourself, use Snap without ever going near the store. Snaps can be downloaded from any source, over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, CIFS, whatever you want: unlike Flatpaks, they are just ordinary files. No special protocol or mechanism needed. The snap format is FOSS (and used by almost all Linux distros for install media), the tools to create it are FOSS, the tools to run it are FOSS, and there are no special tools needed or recommended or supplied to distribute snaps. Which is what the article is about. I know because I wrote it.
- eternityforest 3y agoNot technically impossible, Canonical seems to really want others to use it. Maybe it could be spun off into a separate Snap foundation. For me personally, I don't actually have to deal with any distros except Pi OS an Ubuntu and can pretty much ignore them, so I might be a bit biased.