Comment 8 for bug 1711249

A) You only scratched the surface on your counter point A. Yes, Flatpak is for desktop users, not for rest of the world. As we speak snap core is being used in various iot devices. I heard Honeywell will use snap in their next generation thermostat!! Read https://www.ubuntu.com/internet-of-things

SNAP is miles ahead and wins.

B) WRONG.

Apparmor is default in debian and Ubuntu based distro. Do you have any idea how many disto based on debian? Check this out and get awed :

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

C) That's your assumption. Ubuntu doesn't go against anything.....It goes with flow.....

Blame RH for forcing immature technology on general Linux community. Wayland, Systemd, Pulseaudio, Telepathy...we have seen it all. Wayland, after nearly 10 years development, still buggy and slow, can't play well with video drivers...hell it can't even take screenshot on desktop, where Mir after very short time can do all. Mir had far less devs than Wayland.

Mir is still in development and beside it didn't actually fail but rather Mark cut out the development due to financial crisis. And RH is far bigger company than canonical.

D) Nobody cares about which one is centralized and which one is not. The thing what matter is which one works. And SNAP works. You do not have the right idea about internal working of snaps.

You see,

The big difference is that Snap can also run services, and if you go to http://snapcraft.io you wont find just apps, but also databases and servers! with limitations though, like GVFS access, which can be "relaxed" for specific Snaps. Flatpak at the moment doesn't have no such scheme.

So, short Snap does everything Flatpak does, and more! plus it currently has a more user friendly CLI, which is fantastic.

E) And flatpak along with runtime is over 1 GB for calculator app. Snap app + run-time is far smaller than flatpak! Don't believe me? You better believe it. :P

F) Out of date only for Gnome apps, similarly various server tools and standard libraries already available as snaps. It is also possible to offer full Gnome with snaps !!!!! I doubt that opposite can be true.

I believe Canonical intends to do the right thing but they do not have the money to pull it off. If Canonical has the money, Ubuntu will be ios/android in linux world.