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by kd913 1540 days ago
They literally have stats for each snap download and install.

https://snapcraft.io/slack

You see the map at the bottom with a list of OSes?

They have the interest, commercial and from the populace. Vendors have already integrated it into their pipelines.

What they don't have is the vocal minority. Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.

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In what world do unlabeled graphs count as stats? There’s also no counter for how many downloads there were, or any other useful statistic. They are just bars of various lengths with no explanation on what the lengths actually mean.

> Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.

Then, in that case, by that logic, there’s no reason for you to whine about my whining.

A dev on snapcraft can see the install count (I know).

A dev at Canonical can absolutely see how many install counts are there and if the venture is worth it.

>no explanation on what the lengths actually mean.

>Then, in that case, by that logic, there’s no reason for you to whine about my whining.

They don't care what you say, they don't care about the whining here. You aren't paying to support it either.

Feel free to switch to another packaging solution, or even a new OS. It won't affect Canonical's bottom line.