Ask HN: Thoughts on the universal Linux packages called “snaps”?

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8 years ago

I noted that Ubuntu/Canonical is pushing Snaps recently but don't hear much discussion about it, I see it as an "Electron for Linux distributions" (not necessarily in a bad way), sounds good for the Linux ecosystem!

How about performance?, anyone have experience working with this as a developer? (I'm a designer), share your thoughts!

I recently installed the Spotify Snap [1] on Ubuntu and was really easy and works flawlessly.

Snaps Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)

Snaps website: https://snapcraft.io/

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Spotify-now-has-a-Snap-package-as-well/td-p/4220931

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