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But we know why Snaps and Flatpaks started existing. I also think they are architecturally ugly.
And I think you have a point in terms of patches potentially coming too slowly onto an immutable system. But that problem isn’t an inherent one, it’s just a problem if distribution updates are slow because community support is lacking. At which point you’re just trying to compare Open Source to Proprietary solutions where support is explicitly paid for. I’ll trust a year old Linux kernel over the latest and greatest Windows release any day.
By the way, in my view, Ubuntu using Snaps rather then native packages is a negative.
But we know why Snaps and Flatpaks started existing. I also think they are architecturally ugly.
And I think you have a point in terms of patches potentially coming too slowly onto an immutable system. But that problem isn’t an inherent one, it’s just a problem if distribution updates are slow because community support is lacking. At which point you’re just trying to compare Open Source to Proprietary solutions where support is explicitly paid for. I’ll trust a year old Linux kernel over the latest and greatest Windows release any day.