The title is a quote from Mastodon. I’ve always seen dislike towards snap so I was taken back when I saw this stance. The person who wrote this was referring to Tuxedo Laptops.

What are your thoughts on this?

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    The Venn diagram of supported apps isn’t also a perfect circle. You can’t run VPNs as Flatpaks, and Flathub disallows CLI apps from being submitted (because the UX of using a sandboxed CLI app sucks). Snap doesn’t have these issues.

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        Helix opens it’s own GUI when you run it. It’s not a CLI app in the same sense as git. I’m curious on the others you mention, since as a packager, I’ve seen firsthand CLI apps being declined (or allowed, but only with a hidden status on flathub.org)

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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          5 months ago

          Interesting. Yes I had some other editor too, it opened a new terminal tab.

          There is some flatpak export bin directory where the binaries are, I think you can put that to your PATH and have a pretty good CLI experience.

    • Samueru@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      because the UX of using a sandboxed CLI app sucks

      I think it is more because of this issue because as far as I know snaps have some level of sandbox and you can still use CLI apps as you said.