Roon UI on Wine as Linux snap?

Roon Software Discussion Linux
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I’m not crazy about installing WINE on my main desktop, but I would like to have a Roon UI running there. I’ve managed to get Roon running on WINE on a Ubuntu laptop in the past, so I know it works. However, I’d really like to encapsulate it in a form which restricts WINE’s access. A docker container make the most sense, perhaps, but I understand there are issues with the OpenGL interfaces which may make that difficult.

However, there’s this new thing, snap, which has a “strict confinement” mode. Has anyone tried this as packaging?

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Very interesting. Snap is evidently from Canonical, the Ubuntu folks.
Do tell how it works for you.

On my CentOS Server (which also runs Roon Core) I built a Windows 10 VM (and also a ROCK VM!) to debug a networking problem, and thereby got to use Roon in a Windows VM, which is in and of itself not hard these days, but indeed, if they pre-package individual apps in the snap wrapper, then Roon UI on Linux would be quite easy for folks to enjoy.

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I think flatpak could be an interesting alternative to snap, because it’s more “open”. But with flatpak I have not had any experiences yet.

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Not sure about the politics around these two things. Haven’t used either yet. Maybe in a few weeks I’ll find the time to try one of them.

Thanks for the pointer.

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I was probably a bit hasty and have read too superficially. This does not seem to work. But I stay tuned.

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Let us know! I think we have a certain subset of Linux users here that would profit from this. Like me. I just don’t have time to mess with it right now. =)