Another win for snaps

[Sam Varshavchik]

Owen Thomas writes:

> »On Sat, 14 Sept 2024 at 10:11, Sam Varshavchik <<URL:mailto:mrsam at courier- 
> mta.com>mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
>    Owen Thomas writes:
>
>    > I swear I'm only trying to be happy with my life.
>
>    You said it, partner.
>
>    I just want to have !@#%! that works. Is that too much to ask?
>
>
> Your story underscored the point that I have come to: Ubuntu is free, and  
> that's a good thing, but unless you like to get yourself buried in techo  
> minutiae, it is usually best to tread lightly in Ubuntu software.

I think this goes beyond Ubuntu, ant to all of free software, in general.

It used to be that individual free software projects had a visible  
individual, or individuals, as stakeholders and public faces for those  
projects. Noone wants to have a reputation for producing crap code. For  
those individuals their projects were their pride and joy. They had vested  
interest in their software working well, they were generally responsive to  
community feedback.

These days many projects are just semi-anonymous Github pages. And with  
Ubuntu it goes a step further. After I updated from 22 to 24 I discovered  
that the emacs snap (another win for snaps, btw) crashed when it's started  
by root. A Launchpad bug was closed with a polite note referring to the  
snap's Github page. I clearly see a future where Canonical is on a crusade  
to replace everything with snaps, so they don't need to bother with any of  
them.

FWIW I created a bug on the Github page, two weeks ago. So far, no reply. No  
big deal, I replaced the snap with the deb packages, which were still  
available as ordinary debs, for 24.

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