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Is snap even free opensource?
@imgprojts @OptimusPrime It’s somewhat open source - the client “snapd” software that runs on your system is open-source, but the Snap Store server software isn’t AFAIK
I mean that’s basically it. So long as there’s the tiniest bit of proprietary code or dependency, it automatically falls off my radar as potentially good for me. I think of it as candy and in the back of this delicious looking lolipop piece of software, there’s a big white van just waiting for us to take a lick. Once hooked, away we go…into the Nether regions of what should be free but isn’t.
You can stop using internet right now. There are closed source bits of code in the JS you run off of websites natively. If you are not using LibreJS and IceCat, you have already been assimilated.
They’re slow, and I don’t need them.
apt is easier (probably only because i’m used to it) and snap takes up a fuck ton of space. at one point it took up like a quarter of my entire hard drive, then i started deliberately avoiding snaps
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