https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/thunderbird-snap-in-ubuntu-24-04
If you're an Ubuntu user who uses the Thunderbird e-mail client there are some interesting changes on the way you will want to know about. First up,
This news shouldn't be a shock to anyone. Ubuntu is just doing what they've been doing all along, and that is trying to push they're snap packages.
As long as distros give people the option/ability to install in other ways I don't see a problem. Now if Ubuntu out right banned any other way to install apps that would be big news.
If you try and use apt to install Firefox, it secretly uses snap anyway. Shit like that is a problem
Yeah, I don't see much wrong with it as long as it works as well as any other installation option and stays maintained.
Interesting thought about banning other installation methods. I can't think of how they'd actually do any of that besides going fully immutable. 🤔
Snaps are a great way to:
What a dumb, dumb idea. We already avoid debian/ubuntu because of the validation lack in the packaging, but this is just comically bad.
I've tried a few big apps in flatpak form, and usually they're much bigger, and noticeably (many seconds) slower to start up. (Haven't tried one with less than 4 cores, so can only imagine they being much slower.)
Well, could've been clearer, my experiences apply to snaps and flatpaks. Huger and slower. And I imagine that on older machines, with fewer cores, slower drives or less ram, possibly unuseable. (Don't know.)
I do know that I'm seeing a lot less 'Electron' - framework apps (FAT and cycles-sucking) being released these days, doesn't seem too popular.
Appimages are easier to install but have only tried a couple. 'Stellarium.appImage' is MUCH slower to load, but OK in operation.
I'd enjoy hearing the -measured numbers- and how many people prefer prefer these FAT formats and why.