Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

Post by chpatrick » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

timtom39 wrote: post #25

ifeeltriedboss wrote: post #9

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And if you wanted to install 10 apps, then you'd have to visit 10 web pages, search for the file and then install? No, leave this for Windows.

You don't already do this for Linux? :( A new Linux setup already requires me to visit a bunch of sites and find .debs. Chrome, Signal, Edge, Visual Studio Code, Slack, etc. I don't really trust random unofficial maintainers in snap store and all of the above is required for my work.

Post by floren » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

j33zusjuice wrote: post #48

SlackingOff123 wrote: post #42

I'm being slightly offtopic here but I really dislike how slow Firefox is to launch since it became a snap package as a default on Ubuntu 22.04. I know I can uninstall the Firefox snap and install it through APT, but I imagine more and more packages will become snaps by default on Ubuntu. And finding out now that it's possible that snaps are part of a walled garden, just like app/play stores are is really bumming me…

They all run KDE, even when they don’t provide it out of the box. You can just install it and use KDE instead of Gnome. I’m a big fan of Fedora. I primarily work on RHEL systems, though, so I’m biased because it’s what I’m used to using.

Post by freedomben » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

gort19 wrote: post #119

sschueller wrote: post #89

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- Still need a phone number - They refuse to post the app on f-droid (directly) - No 3rd party clients allowed on their servers. - Crypto thing they attempted - I don't trust Moxie, he rubs me the wrong way.

What do you recommend as an alternative?

Post by b112 » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 4:06 PM UTC

smallerfish wrote: post #62

mort96 wrote: post #3

This is not a good look. The snap has been gone for almost a month, with seemingly no information given to the maintainer or users about why, except a belated "we removed it for policy reasons" 21 days ago. And if this happens to maintainers associated with Snapcrafters , imagine how you're treated if you're just some random person or company who maintains your own snap. This is the sort of reason why people are conc…

While this incident isn't good, I still think the setup is a ton better than Flathub, where you have flatpaks being maintained by third parties with no relationship to the software vendors. For example, all of the Jetbrains snaps are managed by a volunteer, as is Zoom (!) Compromise one of those devs' personal computers, and you've now got a path to getting a backdoor out to everybody using those. I trust Canonical's…

Post by krageon » Thu, Nov 03, 2022, 4:06 PM UTC

aeturnum wrote: post #112

sschueller wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Still need a phone number - They refuse to post the app on f-droid (directly) - No 3rd party clients allowed on their servers. - Crypto thing they attempted - I don't trust Moxie, he rubs me the wrong way.

None of these suggest you shouldn't use signal - or that it's not meeting its goal of secure communication (except the last one I suppose). Signal is not without flaws as you say, but if you have a phone number and can access a binary, there's every reason to believe it will securely and privately transmit your messages. You are also, ofc, free to fork their client and run your own service (as others have done).