Snap compatibility worked GREAT out of the box! Thanks! (HW-Probe))

linuxer

I installed Solus and wanted to send a hardware probe (https://linux-hardware.org/) to help developers. But this particular software is not on the Solus' repositories - but then noticed that indeed snapd is installed by default and that there is a snap package.

Work right on with snap install hw-probe (for some reason sudo snap install hw-probe gave: "error: too early for operation, device not yet seeded or device model not acknowledged").

Thanks! I love it when i don't have to tinker for a long time to get something that is not on Solus' own repos.

pomon

This has to be a snap? There is also appimage and flatpak.

linuxer

pomon

Yes they've always worked the best for me. Plus it's that simple snap install <package> everywhere (any distro) and be done with it. No need to go check anything if one knows the package name 👍️

In flatpak the scheme is nothing short of insane currently ("flatpak install flathub io.github.appname.somerthingelse-toolkit") even though they work fine too of after getting em installed. AppImages don't update themselves, don't integrate nicely and has to be chmodded and whatnot.

alfisya

Just keep in mind that snap support will be removed sometime in the future. AFAIK, that is the plan. The reason? The maintaining burden isn't worth it, snap require kernel patch that has to applied every kernel update and so far the effort to upstream it from Canonical has been stalled for some time.

JTCPingas

alfisya I was wondering if that was an official plan or just talk of potentially going that route. I mean, flatpak has seemingly won the universal package format war so it makes sense.

Harvey

JTCPingas I was wondering if that was an official plan or just talk of potentially going that route.

It is the official plan. https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/325