Is it actually running snap or just unpacking its content and running it as a normal flatpak?
Is it actually running snap or just unpacking its content and running it as a normal flatpak?
This was just an outline of what you could do in the scenario, not a full solution. Looking up the keywords, “Apptainer” (+sandbox), “.sif”, and “AppImage” should give you a starting point, and any specific questions can be answered separately. You are right that people could be jerks to beginners but this is rarely the intent. Not all discourse about Linux has to be at a beginner level, and packaging legacy software is not really a beginner topic.
Pull a docker image of an old distro into an apptainer sandbox, install what you need within, then make a .sif
image, should work pretty much in perpetuity. You can also try to make an Appimage.
To containerize desktop apps I prefer Apptainer/Singularity, that’s pretty portable, usersapce, and requires less tinkering to integrate with the system than Docker. I use it for Zoom and other closed source crap. AppImage is probably the more standard solution for that that’s very similar technologically, but I’m already familiar with Apptainer from work.
I recently tried Ubuntu after many years, needed Docker and it told me to install it as a Snap, I thought, OK, whatever. I’m anything but a newbie, but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out where the volumes were actually kept. That was the primary reason to abandon this experiment.
Agree about Joplin. No need for a full NextCloud instance, I use the WebDAV option which Apache has pretty much out of the box.
Many, but I would shout-out DAVx⁵ and Bitwarden.
I’ve been using nothing but Linux at home and work for 20 years and it’s news to me that these words are not equal synonyms.
I also always start with “crane” 😁