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0 pointskd9134y ago0 comments

Linux users are some of the most opinionated people. At the end of the day, money/convenience matters. Why exactly would they pay attention to you when they have their own priorities?

Snaps reduce reduce their maintenance burdens, and they have the stats themselves for how popular they are. They are by and far more used than flatpaks from what I remember from the video by Martin Wimpress.

Oh and they have third party buy-in from software vendors like Mozilla, Microsoft, VLC, JetBrains, Spotify, slack etc...

Why would they budge?

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gjsman-10004y ago

So according to a Snap developer, Snap is more popular on Ubuntu, the only distribution that comes with it preloaded. That does not say anything about Snap’s popularity.

Vendor interest they have, community interest they lack. And if it continues, lack of community interest will result in a lack of vendor interest.

kd913OP4y ago

They literally have stats for each snap download and install.

https://snapcraft.io/slack

You see the map at the bottom with a list of OSes?

They have the interest, commercial and from the populace. Vendors have already integrated it into their pipelines.

What they don't have is the vocal minority. Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.

gjsman-10004y ago

In what world do unlabeled graphs count as stats? There’s also no counter for how many downloads there were, or any other useful statistic. They are just bars of various lengths with no explanation on what the lengths actually mean.

> Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.

Then, in that case, by that logic, there’s no reason for you to whine about my whining.

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0 pointskd9134y ago0 comments

Linux users are some of the most opinionated people. At the end of the day, money/convenience matters. Why exactly would they pay attention to you when they have their own priorities?

Oh and they have third party buy-in from software vendors like Mozilla, Microsoft, VLC, JetBrains, Spotify, slack etc...

Why would they budge?

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gjsman-10004y ago

So according to a Snap developer, Snap is more popular on Ubuntu, the only distribution that comes with it preloaded. That does not say anything about Snap’s popularity.

Vendor interest they have, community interest they lack. And if it continues, lack of community interest will result in a lack of vendor interest.

kd913OP4y ago

They literally have stats for each snap download and install.

https://snapcraft.io/slack

You see the map at the bottom with a list of OSes?

They have the interest, commercial and from the populace. Vendors have already integrated it into their pipelines.

gjsman-10004y ago

> Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.

Then, in that case, by that logic, there’s no reason for you to whine about my whining.

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