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For roughly two decades, Linux distributions have been the first choice for servers. Hardware support for Linux on the desktop has historically been an encumbrance to widespread adoption, though support for modern hardware on modern distributions has progressed such that most hardware is detected and configured correctly upon installation.
With these advances in hardware support, the last significant challenge users face when switching from Windows or Mac to a Linux distribution is app distribution and installation. While distribution-provided repositories are useful for most open source software, the release model of distributions such as Ubuntu or Fedora lock in users to a major version for programs for the duration of a particular release.
[...] Because of differences in how they interact with the underlying system, certain configuration tasks are different between Snaps or Flatpaks than for directly-installed applications. Likewise, initial commits for the Snap and Flatpak formats were days apart—while the formats were developed essentially in parallel, the existence of two "universal" package formats has led to disagreement about competing standards.
TechRepublic's James Sanders interviewed Martin Wimpress, engineering manager for Snapcraft at Canonical, about Ubuntu's long term plans for Snaps, its adoption and support in other Linux distributions, Canonical's position as the operator of the Snap Store, and the benefits Snaps provide over Flatpak.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday August 07 2019, @03:27PM
From TFS:
Hm. Well, the thing that keeps me on my current OS — OS X — is the fact that the apps I've invested significant amounts of time and energy (and money) won't work except on the OS I'm using now, and my dev systems are all local to this machine as well, so my custom stuff is at least somewhat anchored here.
Worse, since many of the big app makers (of my apps, anyway... Adobe, etc.) have pretty much all moved to the much-despised-by-me "subscription model", those apps will never be available under Linux, except potentially in forms I wouldn't touch with someone else's ten-foot-pole.
I do use Linux for both web and file servers, and often test my Python stuff there before making it public, but other than that... not so much.
Mind, I would not resist moving to Linux if I could take all my goodies with me... the freedom to build custom machines would be great... but really, I can't move my apps except under relatively clumsy (and technically illegal) VMs, so that's not happening.
I guess it all boils down to the fact that you can't distribute an app if there is no app.
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