Have done a distro circle couple of times. From Ubuntu to Fedora, Arch and then something new. Both times eventually returned to Ubuntu because it just effin works. They now also ship with the latest possible kernel on each new release :smile:

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EPIG. Never have, never will support this scum. Even if Epig started to support Linux; too little too late. Tim Sweeney? Nothing but pants :tongue:

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@Tuubi

You also say: (Snap Store) "Which doesn't do anything useful without the proprietary backend."

Where do you base this claim? You can take the open source Snap Store and make it do everything you find useful yourself on your own server back, can you not.

Usefulness therefore might be seen coming from the actual content of that independent server.

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@Tuubi

Snap Store is open source. Literally and any other ways. Where you host it then, is another matter. You can host your own store with snaps.

As you suggest "do you trust Canonical", well, do you or those concerned in this argument trust the server holders of the common websites you seldom visit? Right.

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@knro

Many on GOL too have done that same but eventually for some obvious reason returned to Ubuntu :tongue: I recall also LiamD was on Endeavour, then Fedora and now on Ubuntu (Kubuntu).

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@Tuubi

So the server back end is proprietary, as most websites server that people visit are.
Snap Store, snapd, AppArmor and everything else you run (in means of snaps) are completely open source.

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Surprisingly many also here seem very confused or totally ignorant about Snaps and facts related to them!

Every byte of software you run on your computer (gnome-software and gnome-software-plugin-snap) is completely open source, as well as snapd, AppArmor and everything else having anything to do with running a snap on your computer.

The only thing that isn't open source is the backend server that hosts the online repository and updates, which is also completely optional.

So what's the problem here. As noted earlier; why do you Canonical bashers then run for example Steam? You're not making any sense as far as i can tell :huh:

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Users can also create and distribute their own snaps outside of the Snap Store if they so want, and the Snap client can be configured to use a different server.

There is a lot of misinformation spread by Canonical haters. Hard to understand why they waste their energy and just use what they want and prefer ..

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It's important to get Linux love from these companies. Even more so as the product is proprietary as a big chunk of companies just don't understand open source software nor do they trust those for some reason.

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@Fester_Mudd

Steam's Snap now actually even outperforms the deb one: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/steam-deb-vs-steam-snap-performance-comparison/56811 [External Link]

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