Waffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 8 months agoDoes ubuntu still install snaps when you use apt?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1317arrow-down111
arrow-up1306arrow-down1imageDoes ubuntu still install snaps when you use apt?lemmy.worldWaffelson@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-28 months agoYup, what makes flatpak more akin to the open source spirit is that new submissions to flathub are open source and rely on a PR model https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/ https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls And software that exists on flathub is open and accessible in their repositories https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories Whereas snaps are a web based walled garden controlled by canonical https://snapcraft.io/docs/using-the-snap-store They both provide benefit as you explained, but flathub (flatpak’s default repo) is definitely more open in how it is handled
Yup, what makes flatpak more akin to the open source spirit is that new submissions to flathub are open source and rely on a PR model
https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls
And software that exists on flathub is open and accessible in their repositories
https://github.com/orgs/flathub/repositories
Whereas snaps are a web based walled garden controlled by canonical
https://snapcraft.io/docs/using-the-snap-store
They both provide benefit as you explained, but flathub (flatpak’s default repo) is definitely more open in how it is handled