I installed ‘digikam’ app days ago, it worked great and I was very happy to find the app which I looking for a long time (AI assistant helped me find it).
Now, for reasons, I wanted to install it once again, and its no longer available. Snap was available few days ago, and today its not here. I see yesterday snapstore had 171 apps (cached counter), and today there is 121. Why you removed so many apps from the snapstore?
Before installing I seen digicam had ‘poor’ rating (with around 21 votes as I remember correctly), but it worked great for me. Maybe that rating is outdated.
What should I do now? I don’t use flatpak, because I care about security and snaps allow to easily remove permissions of apps.
Also, where can I find already available information about this? I was searching for 0.5 hour, but did not find why snaps are removed, so I registered here and creating this topic.
With snaps, apps are isolated from the system. It is next best alternative to QubesOS (www [dot] qubes-os [dot] org - forum don’t allow me to post links or edit as new user) , but it is very simple to use. Usually I untoggle all permissions, just enough for app to function and enough for specific features I need.
Flatpak do also run in Sandbox like Snaps. I don’t know where you get your infomation from but Flatpak sets security high as well and you can easely change permission with flatseal app.
I don’t know the reason is for that, but it could be that Ubuntu is now the only distro that comes default with Snaps as other distro went flatpak and/or system package system. (though there are some minor ditrso that have both flat and snap like Zorin OS by default).
There is app store and I install apps the official way. I stick to operating system defaults, because it is best for security to not install things I don’t understand, and I don’t want to learn everything about linux how everything works.
I tried to install multiple instances of the same app for separate projects (it is snaps feature), but it was not working. I uninstalled the app completely in the process trying to figure things out, but the reason is that app is no longer available. Now I no longer have digikam
Plus not only about me, but in general - people need to go away from microsoft and apple. Linux have to be secure and simple. It has to just work correct by default.
I frankly feel that snaps are inherently less secure than some of the other package formats/software, as snaps require a daemon that runs in the background, the snap software is typically behind the upstream software in features and maintenance. They arguably increase the attack surface of an application by adding on all of the apparmor junk (on apps not engineered for this) and it surely can decrease the utility of the app. But, I wouldn’t go so far as to not recommend trying snaps. Especially when Ubuntu/Canonical supports snap, .deb, flatpak, appimage formats and software.
I (anecdotally) haven’t found snaps to be any more secure than any of the other packages. They have, in fact cause a great deal of problems, security and otherwise; just as other proprietary software & hardware has. But, suit yourself.
I just thought I’d suggest an alternative (that even Ubuntu, Canonical, etc.) has clearly supported. Upstream, downstream, sideways.. .
To be clear, this would seem to be an Ubuntu Snap store concern, not one for KDE, or even Digikam specifically. I don’t believe that Digikam themselves even provide a Snap package themselves to begin with. Perhaps any unofficial snap packages have been removed?
Again, it seems more a Snap store concern.
The discussion of the package format is irrelevant, really.
It is missing at least 51 apps as described in the title and description. There was 172 apps, and now it is 121 under ‘KDE’ publisher profile. And scarlettgatelymoore lists on her website that she maintains 186. Maybe not the first time apps are removed.
And counter changed from 121 → 122