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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So you're telling me that if snaps take off and become a standard there's a good chance I'll have to use them just to get my drivers? Now I hate them even more!

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No but you see the drivers will be (must be) approved by Canonical which surely makes things better :|

it's actually the other way. Canonical has had troubles policing Snap Store from malware

This is highly unlikely. Snapd is open source so you can just repackage the software for your distro of choice. I don't think giving users the ability to use both Flatpak and Snap is bad. Though I would put Snap behind a disclaimer due to Snap Store's history.