[kwlug-disc] $30,000/yr to get your app on the $nap $tore

[Rob Gilson]

The trouble with interfaces resonates with my experience - I spent no small
amount of time trying to understand the Snap security model and why my app
wouldn't run before giving up and run it in beta with gross "I accept this
dangerous package" flags.

Classic mode sounds like a great escape hatch for this but it's no small
major hurdle for solo FOSS developers who has to juggle snapcraft-ing with
everything else to get through to an approval for classic mode on the
support forums.

One thing they don't mention here is that the Snapcraft documentation is
very sparse and outright missing things. Also you can google seemingly
valid docs that are evidently legacy / no longer supported buth which give
no indication that they are out of date.

So anyways it's been a year (maybe more?) of just not dealing with that
problem and instead focusing on developing my similarly private cloud FOSS
product (teggapp.io). Imagine my surprise then when just as I am wrapping
things up for a release (*queue I rewrote it in Rust meme*) this pops in to
my email!

Great article - feeling much less alone in my snapcraft struggles after
that and I'm certainly going to take another look at apt :)

Cheer,
Rob

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 1:30 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> What about Windows side, then?
>
> On 3/16/21 12:29 PM, Doug Moen wrote:
> > I didn't realize that Ubuntu has erected a paywall around their walled
> > garden Snap Store.
> > You can't get your app on the Snap Store without Ubuntu's permission,
> > you can't run your own Snap Store or provide snap autoupdates without
> > Ubuntu's permission because the server side is proprietary (unlike
> > Flatpak), and if your app is related to a commercial business, Ubuntu
> > wants a cut.
> >
> https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-and-against-ubuntu-core
> >
> > This is exactly the sort of nonsense I'm trying to get away from,
> > motivating my migration from MacOS to Linux. The bottom line is that I
> > am no longer comfortable being part of the Ubuntu community. If I
> > perceive a distro to be malware then I don't want to run it, and I don't
> > want to spend time after each upgrade disabling malware.
> >
> > In other news, I notice that Wayland finally reaches a "1.0" state in
> > the forthcoming Fedora 34 release. There will be support for remote
> > desktop, and there will be accelerated graphics using an Nvidia GPU.
> > Wayland deficiencies have been a blocking issue for me in the past when
> > I've considered running Fedora. Lots of other recent work in Fedora that
> > interests me too. Eg, Fedora 33 is the first release that defaults to
> > BTRFS on root.
> >
> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/03/15/what-to-look-for-fedora-workstation-34/
> >
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