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Canonical lifts lid on more Ubuntu Core Desktop details
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No. You can add any other repository to apt, rpm, Flatpak, etc. You cannot do the same with Snap and that's by design. Canonical wants to be the sole gatekeeper of Linux software, hoping that all developers have no alternative but to publish software on the Snap store (ideally only there) which works best on Ubuntu.
Therefore: Fuck Snap.
Exactly. I feel they want to sell it to a big player, but no big player will touch it unless they can fully control it. Hence snap as part of that plan. Ubuntu is a hell no for me.
Forget selling it.
I think they're going to get everyone trapped in the ecosystem, and then they'll start charging for access to the source.
@caseyweederman @makingStuffForFun the prediction imperative will come in before that. surveillance capitalism is how they will make their fortune