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apt install firefox (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I didn't really understand what I just read, but it sounds like flatpack but different. I'm on mint, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't affect me. The memes I've seen on the subject give me the impression that people don't like it.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago

Snap is far more like nix. Flatpak deals with a limited subset of what nix and snap do (e.g. it can't distribute kernel packages).

While snap is certainly not without its problems, people repeatedly make massive negative claims about it that, while often based on a core of truth, are highly embellished to the point of being misinformation. (This is the same tactic I see with bad-faith political trolls, and with a similar result really - they'll consistently try to use that core of truth to make far stronger claims than are defensible and, when it's pointed out to them, they move the goalposts to a smaller, more defensible claim, only to repeat the bigger, debunked, claim later.)

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, it's basically flatpak but with more problems and bugs. It's from Canonical and some parts of it are closed source.