lengau

If meatballs and mashed potatoes with lingonberry sauce are against the Geneva convention it's probably time we had on Oslo convention.

I'm quite aware. I'm currently a maintainer of packages in all three formats.

You're making my point for me though. Each of the other things you've suggested is more work than requires more expertise. Popping up an emulator on an existing box and dumping a ROM in there is something an intern can do.

All of these other things can be done, but they're not as quick and simple, and that's why we're seeing this in the first case - Nintendo went with a quick and simple solution, and someone found a bug (it still plays Windows noises).

I simply don't understand how this is any different from the fact that Ubuntu doesn't include RPMs?

I generally use avocado and horseradish that I dye green for some reason.

It's the exclusivity to snaps and nothing else that bothers me. Like, you don't have a choice but to use snap for some packages.

Seems like a weird take. Before snap came along this was true to the same extent of Ubuntu with Debs. The fact that they're migrating some of the packages they maintain (that also happen to be the trickier ones to maintain as deb files) to snaps doesn't prevent you from getting another repo that has the package as a deb and using that any more than your distro not having the latest version of an app prevents you from downloading and building a tarball.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I take it you've never ported an application to a different platform running on a different hardware architecture before.

Better to put thin slices of raw fish on it.

The Ubuntu Core Desktop demo at SCALE this year actually got me pretty excited for my desktop in a snap, or at least for playing with that. The closest analogy I have is to NixOS, since it's way more flexible than just an immutable base.

If I can get some sort of KDE Neon type distro with immutable apps and desktop, I could potentially switch my family over to that and manage it all remotely (really big deal since my family is spread across 3 continents). Landscape is pretty good at remotely managing Ubuntu Core (I've not found anything even close for NixOS), so I'm hopeful this would reduce my management work when my family's current Chromebooks need replacing.

KDE is pretty tech neutral. They publish on Flathub too.

Personally I'm pretty excited about the snaps of more KDE apps, as it'll allow me to have the latest KDE apps even on my systems where Flatpak just shits the bed.

Next time use arborio rice. It sticks together nicely and creates a protective layer for your keyboard.