I just don’t see the point of them when there are flatpaks. I’m not super knowledgeable on Snaps so maybe there’s some huge benefit I don’t know about, but they always just seemed like a worse version of flatpak to me.
What I like about flatpaks over appimages is that they will get updated, be included in the application list, and not live inside my Downloads Directory
Canonical controls the back end and that (along with how canonical has treated snaps in Ubuntu pulling them in with apt calls) are two major reasons snaps get (justified) hate
I just don’t see the point of them when there are flatpaks. I’m not super knowledgeable on Snaps so maybe there’s some huge benefit I don’t know about, but they always just seemed like a worse version of flatpak to me.
I don’t see the point of flatpaks when there are appimages.
Anyway last I heard snap has terminal/server apps and more system interaction.
What I like about flatpaks over appimages is that they will get updated, be included in the application list, and not live inside my Downloads Directory
I have been using an app called gear lever to manage my app images and I am very happy.
You might like that snaps can update themselves.
Also deduplication is nice
The huge benefit (to canonical) is that they control the store/repo.
How exactly is that a benefit?
I should have added a /s.
Canonical controls the back end and that (along with how canonical has treated snaps in Ubuntu pulling them in with apt calls) are two major reasons snaps get (justified) hate
Everything on the system, including the desktop, kernel, and CUPS, can be installed by snap.