[tde-users] Re: skype only with SNAP (off-topic)

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote: Does flatpak require a service to be running similar to snapd? Is flatpak also reliant on a backend store (run by Canonical or similar)? My understanding from reading your replies is that snap/flatpak/appimage all consist in images that get mounted through loopback devices, right? Once mounted, can you look at individual files in the images, or is it like a black box? I also read that snap makes booting slower and snapd adds load on the CPU (either when a snap package is running or always). There is also the issue that updates happen automatically and cannot be controlled by the user. It seems that I cannot install snappy on openSUSE Leap 15.4 since it is no longer available in this (no longer officially supported) distribution, but only on Leap 15.5 and above. But I don't think I would do it otherwise since I have an alternative how to run skype if I need to. Thanks for all your replies and conversation, Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/research/ Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------