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      Flatpak can’t run CLI apps. Also, they started around the same time. Flatpak in 2015 and Snap in 2016. This is like saying dnf shouldn’t exist because apt is a thing.

      Why would Canonical abandon their own solution because some people online complain?

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        The question that I have to ask: what category of CLI apps (or even some examples) exist that are too complex to maintain a few versions simultaneously as native packages but are not complex enough to just use an OCI container for them instead?

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          Personally I use (and maintain) snaps for several developer tools I use, because the automatic updates through snap means I can have automatically up-to-date tools with the same package across my Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and OpenSuSE machines.

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        2 months ago

        Install CLI packages with Nix. You don’t need a proprietary system

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          So why would Canonical switch to another technology that came after what they made and doesn’t cover their biggest use cases for snaps?

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              But if flatpak doesn’t meet the widest use case of snap, are they really describing flatpak?

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                  Flatpak is not a solution for packaging a large portion of the types of software Canonical packages with snap, such as database servers, kernels and containerisation software like lxd.