Screenshot doesn’t even show half.

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    Sigh, I was a sysadmin on my own system from 1999-2008 and on a busy server from 2008-2012… then essentially quit. Now with flatpak and snaps it seems I have no idea what I am doing.

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      Flatpaks aren’t very relevant for servers if I am not wrong but Canonical definitely tties to push Snaps for that usecase, I feel like other container technologies like Docker or Podman are a lot more relevant in that context and containerization in general is really nice especially for server use and not that hard to wrap your head around! ;)

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        Yeah, that’s really what I haven’t used that seems significant these days - Docker. I used to use VMs a fair bit including the premade ones from MS for IE testing, which I think (?) are the same concept.

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          Well not really, Docker dose run another Linux system but on your actual hardware so you don’t have the overhead of emulation, it’s really cool for a lot of things!

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            Huh, okay. I thought it was a quick way to set up a VM - that’s how much I don’t know! I should probably look into it, thanks.

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        Docker requires management and some setup. A server snap just works, it’s updated automatically and rolls back when necessary.

        It’s just a breeze. I use it for nextcloud and I’m safe for years with no maintenance from my side at all.

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          I won’t use it myself because I don’t think it’s a good idea to give Canonical or any other company that much power and don’t think it’s centralized nature should be how such package systems work but I don’t think it’s a bad system at all! The sandboxing has it’s hurtles but it’s really good and I am a huge fan of proper sandboxing so if it works for you it’s certainly a good option!

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          Auto updates are not an option for anything mission critical. Every update must be tested in isolation first or you might fuck things up beyond repair.

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            Updates are atomic and if something goes wrong it rolls back automatically

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              Not everything that goes wrong might be counted as wrong by the developers. Automatic updates is a no-no.