Snap isn't something that was "released" but like many other Canonical's offerings, it was actively shoved down upon users' throats. I remem...
  • pingveno
    3·
    5 years ago

    I’ve never used Snapcraft, but I’m not sure where the criticism of Flatpak is coming from. If you don’t want to upgrade, then don’t. If you want to customize a particular package, all Flathub packages are available on Github and can be pushed to a custom repository. In terms of user control, it’s no worse nor better than the Linux packages that have been ubiquitous for a long time.

    • smart_jackalOP
      1·
      5 years ago

      But the danger of developer being able to control updates from upstream will still be there with Flatpak, isn’t it? Such danger wasn’t present with apt/dnf/zypper.