Developer of popular password manager to drop Ubuntu Snap packaging

Date:
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:36:29 GMT

Description:
KeePassXC developer refers to praise of Snap as "a bad joke."

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Ubuntu is continuing to experience negative blowback from increasing their promotion and dependency on Snap packaging and resolutely stating they will not add support for rival packaging format Flatpak to their Linux
distribution .

Not only has a former Canonical employee (the former, official Ubuntu Snap advocate) developed Unsnap " to help people stop using Snap but now

The developer of the popular password manager, KeePassXC , has responded with the following statement to the Ubuntu leaders declaration of the superiority of Snap packaging:

This must be a bad joke. There is nothing simple about Snaps and we are moving away from them for exactly that reason. Source: Twitter

Thats not a small statement.

Without support from key applications (of which KeePassXC would count among them), Ubuntu is going to experience continued loss of userbase.

Last week I made the following prediction :

My prediction: Ubuntu will see a (small but noteworthy) rebounding of market-share after they completely remove Snap from the distribution and
spend a release cycle focusing on the issues that have been driving people away.

I would like to make a minor addition to that prediction: If this sort of thing continues developers actively shunning Snap packaging Ubuntu will remove Snap packaging from their Linux distribution within the year, and
adopt Flatpak. Possibly as early as the next release, coming in 6 months.

And, quite honestly, I truly hope that happens quickly. Ubuntu is, in so many ways, a truly excellent distribution of Linux . With Ubuntu marketshare in a nosedive in part, it appears, because of Snap time is of the essence. Want
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