What is AFTL? Probably not “Anterior talofibular ligament” as the internet told me
Release notes of an open source app. Someone pretty mad at Canonical for Snap
Submitted 11 months ago by suy@programming.dev to programmer_humor@programming.dev
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tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 11 months ago
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
What's easier to understand: ankle anatomy or Ubuntu publishing.
Teon@kbin.social 11 months ago
Ankle!
anzo@programming.dev 11 months ago
This post title is misleading. The developer was working with Snap until Canonical didn’t allowed it anymore. He’s pissed with the policy enforcement which is strictly speaking commercial and as bad as Apple’s afaik…
suy@programming.dev 11 months ago
Sorry, could you clarify what you mean? I don’t see the difference. Isn’t the author complaining about Canonical for the policy enforcement?
anzo@programming.dev 11 months ago
Canonical has been taking bad decisions for quite some time now, and this developer was trying to reach Ubuntu users even while probably knowing these. Which makes sense, of course. The point being that this dev’s disappointment seems quite specific in these notes (against Snap), and imho he might work again towards shipping their app through Snap if he was allowed to. My comment compares Canonical to Apple, to give some context of where Canonical is at so many other idiosyncrasies (for example, I also heard other bad stuff about their H.R., in particular a way too lengthy hiring process.)
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Having worked with Unix and Linux for 29 years, some of it deep in os security, I strongly believe
- canonical is good at hiding the fact they’re evil as hell
- snap is a bag o shite
Cheers to this guy.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 10 months ago
Canonical wants to be Microsoft so bad
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Linux: easier to use than Windows🤣
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Windows doesn’t even have a software repo.
As a worst-case scenario, AFTL could just make you download it from the website and it would be exactly as bad as Windows UX.
DiabloD3@programming.dev 11 months ago
Good on them. Snap is a plague.
pkill@programming.dev 11 months ago
Why are they even still pushing that nonsense when flatpak at least somewhat gets closer to getting bwrap implemented right?
hunger@programming.dev [bot] 11 months ago
To be fair: snaps can work for all kinds of things all over the stack from the kernel to individual applications, while flatpak just does applications. Canonical is building a lot around those abilities to handle lower level things, so I guess it makes sense for them.
IMHO flatpak does the applications better and more reliably and those are what I personally care for, so I personally stay away from snaps.