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_joel | karma 2846 | avg karma 2.1 · 2017-01-30 17:02:52+00:00

Agreed, but not quite the same as saying it's vendor lock-in, is it.

bkor | karma 2970 | avg karma 2.97 · 2017-01-30 17:40:53+00:00

I did not claim that, I merely added something to your statement.

With Snaps too easily the caveats are ignored. Theoretically you could run your own store. Practically it needed an environment variable, plus (at least at that time) the server code wasn't open.

Snaps are IMO quite a success (seems more used than Flatpak& AppImage), but always find a bit unfortunate that its limitations aren't mentioned. E.g. only today I learned that it doesn't do user installation. Similarly the sandboxed and running on multiple distributions.

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_joel | karma 2846 | avg karma 2.1 · 2017-01-30 19:10:43

Understood, apologies if the comment seemed terse.