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snaps work on anything that has systemd so I don't quite know where you got the idea is that it is mostly limited to ubuntu.

There are several reasons but at some point we can use user namespaces to remove them. I'm not particularly a HN person so I won't go into details but it's possible to drop the set…

It's still work in progress but snaps genuinely make packaging easier. There are rough edges, especially on the desktop, but those are all being worked on, in collaboration with fl…

IIRC GNOME removed support for snaps from gnome-software so this was the only way forward.

It will be on the next reboot/login. Due to some bugs setting up PATH is hard (harder than other variables and much harder than it should be) so we did the best we could (require a…

Your knowledge is incorrect. Snaps don't have to be statically linked. They use a mount namespace with a predictable set of libraries that are maintained and receive security updat…

It's not a crazy idea, just one that entirely limits the target audience to extremely technical people. Some people would like to make their software available to a wider audience.…

With my upstream developer hat and Ubuntu developer for about a decade hat on I really call BS on this. This is very hard in practice. It's hard even when you know things very well…

Hey there. In snapd (which is implemented in mostly go) we have this problem a lot. The real issue is that certain system calls fail if more than one thread exists in the calling p…