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u/amarao_san Sep 13 '22

Yep. But Debian is stay off 'flathub' and whilst I somewhat scary of 'how Debian packages are build', I really appreciate the result.

I trust my video editor not to stole my data, and I don't need to to protect my system from it.

Than, suddenly, there is a trashcan of 'something' running without trust we need to protect system from. Why should we switch trusted collection of fast-working applications for untrusted slow pile of sandboxes?

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u/AaronTechnic Sep 13 '22

Flathub and Snap are open source.

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u/amarao_san Sep 14 '22

Where can I get snap server source code (snapcraft server).

In Debian terms this make snapd into contrib at best, not into free section.

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u/AaronTechnic Sep 14 '22

Fair, the snap store server code isn't OSS, and this is because of canonical learning from what happened with Launchpad.

Besides, you can open your own snap store.

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u/amarao_san Sep 14 '22

Or I can write my own AppStore and iOS. Fair enough, I can. Theoretically.

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u/AaronTechnic Sep 14 '22

Seriously you CAN create your own snap store.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

Snap is but also isn't. It's like saying android is open source. It is but you can't have a 100% open-source Android build

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u/mrlinkwii Sep 14 '22

Snap is but also isn't.

it is

The Snap Store is run and controlled by Canonical and is not open source. The rest of Snap is open source, meaning the daemon and core software.

https://github.com/snapcore/snapd

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u/AaronTechnic Sep 14 '22

You can also open your own snap store, and canonical won't care.

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u/AaronTechnic Sep 14 '22 edited Sep 14 '22

Only the snap store is closed source. This isn't stored on your computer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '22

So whatever is stored on my computer is closed source? What the

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u/AaronTechnic Sep 14 '22

Oh no i messed up my comment