Holy fuck. I hope KDE snaps aren't going to be mandatory. I just reinstalled Kubuntu to erase Windows from my PC and I've had quite a hard time working around snaps.
I regret not installing Debian as I said I would but changed my mind last minute thinking it wouldn't be so bad...
KDE is pretty tech neutral. They publish on Flathub too.
Personally I'm pretty excited about the snaps of more KDE apps, as it'll allow me to have the latest KDE apps even on my systems where Flatpak just shits the bed.
Flatpak just shits the bed.
How come?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can as of yet still disable Snaps entirely on *buntu and enable Flatpak instead. I doubt you'll be getting them as regular .deb packages for long still though...
Sure. But when packages become exclusively available as Snaps, that's just asking for users to dump the distro for something else.
Why would we need to turn KDE packages into Snaps????? That'll slow down the whole startup process because Snaps are stored compressed and will need to be decompressed before launch. And why have your whole DE in a sandbox????? That doesn't make any sense to me. Unless they're talking about only the applications. But even then that's too much.
The Ubuntu Core Desktop demo at SCALE this year actually got me pretty excited for my desktop in a snap, or at least for playing with that. The closest analogy I have is to NixOS, since it's way more flexible than just an immutable base.
If I can get some sort of KDE Neon type distro with immutable apps and desktop, I could potentially switch my family over to that and manage it all remotely (really big deal since my family is spread across 3 continents). Landscape is pretty good at remotely managing Ubuntu Core (I've not found anything even close for NixOS), so I'm hopeful this would reduce my management work when my family's current Chromebooks need replacing.
That might be a good solution for you, yes.
I don't have anything against Snap itself. It's the exclusivity to snaps and nothing else that bothers me. Like, you don't have a choice but to use snap for some packages.
While it may be a good solution for your scenario, but it's not for mine. I should be able to decide if I want a software as a snap or not. And if someone wants to use snaps exclusively, there should be some configuration to set to do this. It shouldn't be imposed on the end users.
It's the exclusivity to snaps and nothing else that bothers me. Like, you don't have a choice but to use snap for some packages.
Seems like a weird take. Before snap came along this was true to the same extent of Ubuntu with Debs. The fact that they're migrating some of the packages they maintain (that also happen to be the trickier ones to maintain as deb files) to snaps doesn't prevent you from getting another repo that has the package as a deb and using that any more than your distro not having the latest version of an app prevents you from downloading and building a tarball.
That's if the maintainer of that software provides the repo. Like Firefox. But that's not always the case.
And I don't see why I should be the one that has to take the extra steps to add these to my sources when having the choice should be the default OOTB.
I simply don't understand how this is any different from the fact that Ubuntu doesn't include RPMs?
That's totally different.
Do you even know what's the difference between a .deb/.rpm and a snap?
I'm quite aware. I'm currently a maintainer of packages in all three formats.
KDE is an international technology team creating user-friendly free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. KDE’s software runs on GNU/Linux, BSD and other operating systems, including Windows.
If you encounter a bug, proceed to https://bugs.kde.org, check whether it has been reported.
If it hasn't, report it yourself.
PLEASE THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING HERE.
Developers do not look for reports on social media, so they will not see it and all it does is clutter up the feed.