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    [–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 month ago (36 children)

    Snap should be reason enough that everyone should abandon Ubuntu, especially when Mint is right there. The last thing we need is to make Linux more like Android+Google Play.

    [–] tsugu@slrpnk.net -5 points 1 month ago (33 children)

    I politely disagree. Try to look at Snaps this way: Canonical maintains 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04. Each with their own repos. Each has to be properly maintained. With snap they can release the package a single time, and it can be used across all of their releases. I think this is the main point of snap. Being able to use it across other systemd distros is just a bonus.

    [–] eleitl@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Yes, they maintain a lot of LTS releases and want to minimize work. Which is their own problem entirely. So I'm going to go back to Debian next time I reinstall or build.

    [–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    So offering 10 years of support for a release is a bad thing now. Got it.

    [–] eleitl@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

    No. But I'm not willing to trade convenience for vendor lock-in. Not that this matters in containerland anyway.

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