[kwlug-disc] $30,000/yr to get your app on the $nap $tore
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Tue Mar 16 13:29:58 EDT 2021
What about Windows side, then?
On 3/16/21 12:29 PM, Doug Moen wrote:
> I didn't realize that Ubuntu has erected a paywall around their walled
> garden Snap Store.
> You can't get your app on the Snap Store without Ubuntu's permission,
> you can't run your own Snap Store or provide snap autoupdates without
> Ubuntu's permission because the server side is proprietary (unlike
> Flatpak), and if your app is related to a commercial business, Ubuntu
> wants a cut.
> https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nextbox-why-we-decided-and-against-ubuntu-core
>
> This is exactly the sort of nonsense I'm trying to get away from,
> motivating my migration from MacOS to Linux. The bottom line is that I
> am no longer comfortable being part of the Ubuntu community. If I
> perceive a distro to be malware then I don't want to run it, and I don't
> want to spend time after each upgrade disabling malware.
>
> In other news, I notice that Wayland finally reaches a "1.0" state in
> the forthcoming Fedora 34 release. There will be support for remote
> desktop, and there will be accelerated graphics using an Nvidia GPU.
> Wayland deficiencies have been a blocking issue for me in the past when
> I've considered running Fedora. Lots of other recent work in Fedora that
> interests me too. Eg, Fedora 33 is the first release that defaults to
> BTRFS on root.
> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/03/15/what-to-look-for-fedora-workstation-34/
>
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