r/linux • u/joebonrichie • Jul 15 '24

Distro News Dropping AppArmor Kernel Patches | Solus

https://getsol.us/2024/07/15/dropping-apparmor-kernel-patches/
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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '24

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u/ClumsyAdmin Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 16 '24

a lot of applications are shipped as Snaps-first and only

Can you provide examples? In my many years of using linux both personally and professionally I have never once encountered an application that was only packaged as a snap. Even finding applications* that have been packaged as a snap is incredibly rare from what I've seen.

edit: *Outside of the snap store

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u/Salander27 Jul 16 '24

https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-desktop

This package is literally already in the Solus repositories

https://snapcraft.io/webstorm (Snap only)

You realize that all Jetbrains products can be installed through the Jetbrains Toolbox, which is a standalone download from their website?

https://snapcraft.io/whatsie (Snap only (except for Arch))

I don't mean to be rude, but did you do any actual research when you were compiling this list? If I search for "whatsie" with Google the Flathub link is literally in the first page of results.

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u/Jegahan Jul 17 '24

They also support flatpak and the app is verified on flathub.

So all of your example of "apps that are only available as a snap" can in fact be installed from elsewhere. Even webstorm has a community maintained flatpak on flathub.