If it is trivial, why is Canonical keeping it proprietary?
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Except both RPM and DEB are fully open-source. Flatpak is open-source, Snap is partly proprietary.
The big difference is that Snap is partially proprietary. For those who like Linux for its free and open-source nature and all the benefits that confers, this is an unfortunate evolution that has a negative impact on the Linux ecosystem.
There is a problem with pushing tech if that tech is proprietary — such as with Snaps.
Unity I don’t think was ever that controversial, except that Ubuntu was sending all desktop search queries to Amazon at one point, which was, of course, terrible privacy-wise. The reason why Unity died is because Ubuntu decided it’s not worth the money to maintain it.