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minus-squareQuail4789@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down4·11 hours agoEverybody’s bashing snaps but you can literally package drivers as snaps. If you don’t think that’s cool af I don’t know what is.
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agowhat’s the benefit of packaging drivers that way? surely not permission separation
minus-squareqwerty@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·11 hours agoSo you’re telling me that if snaps take off and become a standard there’s a good chance I’ll have to use them just to get my drivers? Now I hate them even more!
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·10 hours agoNo but you see the drivers will be (must be) approved by Canonical which surely makes things better :|
Everybody’s bashing snaps but you can literally package drivers as snaps. If you don’t think that’s cool af I don’t know what is.
what’s the benefit of packaging drivers that way? surely not permission separation
So you’re telling me that if snaps take off and become a standard there’s a good chance I’ll have to use them just to get my drivers? Now I hate them even more!
No but you see the drivers will be (must be) approved by Canonical which surely makes things better :|