It’s a package format that bundles all required libraries, that way you don’t run into the issue with program A requiring library version <1.1 and program B requiring library >1.3.
It leads to larger binaries because these dependencies are bundled, but it solves the issue with old/minimally maintained software not working on new OS versions because they depend on an ancient version of libssl or something.
Snaps is Ubuntu/Canonicals proprietary package format which is mostly considered a worse alternative to flatpak (another package format) with no real advantages on desktops that Canonical is trying to force on users
The webserver that canonical uses to distribute other people’s snaps is, and that’s it. APKs aren’t proprietary just because Google runs the Play store.
If you don’t want to interact with canonical’s servers you can download the snap files from literally anywhere else and install them manually so you don’t have to touch a single line of non open source code.
Linux beginner here. Whats snaps?
It’s a package format that bundles all required libraries, that way you don’t run into the issue with program A requiring library version <1.1 and program B requiring library >1.3.
It leads to larger binaries because these dependencies are bundled, but it solves the issue with old/minimally maintained software not working on new OS versions because they depend on an ancient version of libssl or something.
Snaps is Ubuntu/Canonicals proprietary package format which is mostly considered a worse alternative to flatpak (another package format) with no real advantages on desktops that Canonical is trying to force on users
Snaps are not a proprietary package format.
The backend is proprietary
The webserver that canonical uses to distribute other people’s snaps is, and that’s it. APKs aren’t proprietary just because Google runs the Play store.
If you don’t want to interact with canonical’s servers you can download the snap files from literally anywhere else and install them manually so you don’t have to touch a single line of non open source code.